We went to Stone Brewery for our last dinner.
It's great to be able to sit outside in October - but - because it's fairly close to the airport the noise every 3 minutes is incredible. A plane flies over just after take-off with a deafening roar and you can't hear anyone talking. The same happens at Ocean Beach where we are staying, starting at 6 am on the dot. Fortunately they stop at 10 pm.
A tour guide told us that when outdoor theatre is playing they stop dead in mid-sentence while a plane passes: "Oklahoma where the wind" - everyone freezes till the plane has gone - "comes sweeping down the plain". So Carol and I have taken to singing "Oklahoma" at each plane. And it's a lot of planes.
Final morning: Carol and Jim left quietly at 4 am in order to return the hire car and board a plane for Virginia. We heard their plane: it was one of 24 that took off between 6.30 and 7.
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