Who thought that leaving Virginia would be such a challenge? The city was demolishing a tall building right beside the Metrorail station that had the bus to the airport. Conveniently the transit company decided to simply skip that stop and the new stop was pretty close to the darn airport, so I took an Uber.

The flight to Cancun was fairly uneventful for the first half – especially the food. United serves a “snack box” in business class (which they like to call first) that is just full of junk food. Luckily I was warned in advance and procured a sandwich for the flight. The sandwich was good but it made by fellow passengers jealous.

As we were passing over the middle of Florida the captain came on to tell us that a rocket had been launched from Cape Canaveral. As I looked out of the window I can genuinely say that I have never seen such a thing while on board an aircraft before.

It was quite an incredible view from the aircraft as we watched the rocket continue it’s assent into space. The flight path for this aircraft goes quite close to the cape so I am curious how many other rockets United may have seen as they flew over.