If you missed my day 6, you can view it here.

All good things come to an end as with CloudWorld 2024, and it was time to return back home to the UK. I had a same flights back as I did coming to Las Vegas but in reverse, so to New York then Manchester. With the only difference when I came due to the timezone difference it was the same day, but going back due to losing so many hours due to timezone difference, I leave Saturday but arrive Sunday morning! 😫

Return Journey

I had an morning flight of 9:25am, so was up early to complete my packing and get to airport for 6:30am. After dropping my bag off, getting through security and grabbing a bagel for breakfast it was time to board my flight.

I really like the Delta flights as the plane are pretty modern with great entertainment system and free WiFi! 😎

Time to take off, 6 hours flight to JFK New York.

After pleasure flight, arrived in New York slightly earlier and had about 1 hour to catch next flight to Manchester.

It took quite some time to taxi to gate and to get off the plane, which only left 30 minutes to board next flight which left in an hour. The shuffle bus wasn’t at the stop next to the gate I came through off the plane, so I decided to walk even though it was about 20-25 minutes walk.

I managed to walk at good pace and even managed to stop at chocolate shop to get brittle peanut which my wife wanted. Arrived at gate and they were about to start boarding. Miss England was the plane I’d be traveling on this time.

It was 6pm in New York but 11pm in UK, and I always look ahead at the destination time to ensure I adjust my bodyclock accordingly and limit the jetlag. So it was case of having food and catching some sleep as when I arrive in UK, it was going to be nearly 7am.

As planned, I had my food and went to sleep as best as I could in a plane and rested. 7 hours later we landed in Manchester which was looking a bit grim!

Was glad to be back and was looking forward to getting home and seeing the wife and kids.

I collected my luggage, thankfully no delayed luggage like in the past and I was off home in a taxi.

As always, a really enjoyable and brilliant trip, many thanks to Oracle Ace Program for the complimentary CloudWorld ticket and to my employer Version 1 for covering travel, accomodation and time out the office.

Till hopefully CloudWorld 25, take care and I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post series and apologies for the delay in writing it all up (it surprisingly take some considerable time) 🙄

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Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)