{"id":73,"date":"2021-10-05T21:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T21:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2024-02-18T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T18:55:32","slug":"planes-trains-and-automobiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/planes-trains-and-automobiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sault St. Marie, ON &#8211; Sturgeon Bay, WI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hotel Quattro, Sault Ste Marine, ON to Sturgeon Bay, WI by plane and shuttle &#8211; Oct 5, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flights booked, shuttle booked to get to the airport.&nbsp; Check out at 7:30 am.&nbsp; We both pinch ourselves.&nbsp; Up until now we were not sure exactly which plan was going to pan out.&nbsp; This has been a long few weeks and the day is here, finally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flight at The Soo was turned around in Toronto due to a malfunction.&nbsp; We were instructed that we would have to wait until a new flight made the trek north.&nbsp; Okay, grab another coffee.&nbsp; At least there is wifi.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally get on the flight and we are told that we won\u2019t make our connection so the agent books that for a later connection.&nbsp; Dang.&nbsp; We really wanted to have the time to stock up and get situated coming in around 5:30.&nbsp; Now it will be 10:00 pm.&nbsp; Call the shuttle driver to be sure he can pick us up.&nbsp; Check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easy flight to Toronto and we grab lunch.&nbsp; I packed our lunch and it came in handy.&nbsp; Now we have a 4 hour layover.&nbsp; We find a quiet spot by ourselves and wait for the flight to Chicago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On time, yay.&nbsp; It\u2019s around 4:00 and a little over an hour to Chicago.&nbsp; I think the taxying on the tarmac took longer than the flight did.&nbsp; O\u2019Hare is a large as they say.&nbsp; Finally in.&nbsp; No luggage for us as we travel with carry on only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our final leg of this journey is a flight from Chicago to Green Bay, WI.&nbsp; Another hour flight. We will land late as we were held up on the Chicago runway waiting in a long line of flights to take off.&nbsp; The shuttle driver followed us on our flight for landing time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Landing in around 10:15 we now have a shuttle drive to the marina where Heliopause waits for us.&nbsp; Can\u2019t wait to be home.&nbsp; The shuttle was about 45 minutes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this time we are traveling so is the Captain and crew.&nbsp; We had to book everything.&nbsp; So they took a shuttle from Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay, jumped on an Amtrak train to Chicago, then a taxi to home.&nbsp; Yes they made it without a hiccup.&nbsp; I think we are hired for future planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There she was.&nbsp; Standing so elegant in the night with her lights on.&nbsp; Thanks Captain Karl from At the Helm.&nbsp; So thankful right now.&nbsp; Change sheets, grab a shower and head to bed.&nbsp; It\u2019s a good day!<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotel Quattro, Sault Ste Marine, ON to Sturgeon Bay, WI by plane and shuttle &#8211; Oct 5, 2021 Flights booked, shuttle booked to get to the airport.&nbsp; Check out at 7:30 am.&nbsp; We both pinch ourselves.&nbsp; Up until now we were not sure exactly which plan was going to pan out.&nbsp; This has been a <a href='https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/planes-trains-and-automobiles\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-loop-second","category-uncategorized","category-4-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}