Saturday is departure day

We left the car in Tring and were kindly chauffeured to Heathrow T5 by Aaron (Phil's father in law).  Check in was painless and after a bite to eat in Wagamama's (very good) we wandered up to the gate.  The flight was full and took about 9 hours to Atlanta.  Immigration was a nightmare as 5 international flights had arrived in the space of half an hour (something to do with the strikes in France).  We were shuffled between various queues and I eventually took about 2 hours to get through.

On board getting ready to go

The car pick up went
well as I had registered as an 'Alamo insider' and did not have to queue at the registration desk but go straight to the car pool and select one.

The view from our hotel bedroom

We then drove a short distance to the airport hotel who claimed they knew nothing of our booking!  I showed them the booking.com paperwork and they found us a room as well as honouring the price we had been quoted.  We had a few hours sleep before setting off for Hilton Head