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DAY 1

BOISE (Idaho, USA) to LONDON (Greater London, ENG)

September 1998

TODAYS MILEAGE – 5881 miles or 9465 kilometres

TRIP MILEAGE – 5881 miles or 9465 kilometres

Our trip planning saw us leaving after work on a Friday, which would maximize the time we could spend in Europe, without having to burn any more annual leave than we had to.

As a anniversary present to ourselves, we decided to use some airline miles to bump up to First Class, on the inaugural United Airlines Boeing 777 flight from the United States to Europe.

As luck would have it, most of the air travel was overnight and we arrived at London’s Heathrow airport around 3 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon.

Here's a breakdown of the travel times and distances in getting over here:

∗ BOISE (Idaho, USA) to CHICAGO (Illinois, USA)

1435 miles or 2309 kilometres

• Flight Time: 3 hours 13 minutes

∗ CHICAGO (Illinois, USA) to LONDON (Greater London, ENG)

3946 miles or 6350 kilometres

• Flight Time: 7 hours 58 minutes