On the night on 911 I was passing emails back and forth with my best mate, Geraint, I was just coming to the end of my works posting to Melbourne in Australia and had agreed with my boss an extended holiday as it had been about a year since I’d taken a holiday and I had a lot of weeks backed up to take. I was going to fly from Melbourne to Hawaii on 14th Sept, 3 days time, and have a week in a smart beach-front hotel in Hawaii then on to Boise in Idaho where I was going to stay with Ger for a couple of weeks before flying home. That also meant that I’d have gone all the way around the world heading East which would have been a great one to tick off the bucket list!
Ger sent an email saying “turn on the tv” so I did and watched the horror of September 11th 2001 unfold.
Needless to say, all holiday plans cancelled and I still haven’t crossed the Pacific!