Quick Stop in SF

Even with a fairly short layover, the players were excited to have a final meal at SFO, known to the experienced WNT travelers as a “good food airport,” but it didn’t quite work out that way. In order to transfer from the domestic to the international terminal without going through security, the team had to take a shuttle to terminal, then up a special elevator…problem was that the elevator broke, stranding the U.S. team in a hot, humid hallway on the tarmac level. Just as midfielder Angela Hucles was about to bust out the harmonica she brought to China (and intends to master), and after about 15 minutes of waiting around, the players (and at least a hundred slightly agisted other passengers) were ushered to a large service elevator and taken up to the terminal. With the flight boarding, the players still had time to rush to a Mexican food place in the terminal and grab a last meal before getting on the plane, adding stock to the adage that “there’s always time for a burrito!”