We left early on Thursday morning to get to SFO in good time for our flight. Catching BART would have been my preferred way to get there, but when I costed up the options it looked cheaper to catch an UberXL (at around $43) than to pay for 5 people at $8.90 per person (it’s frankly outrageous there are no discounted BART tickets for kids unless they have a Clipper card). Plus there would have been the not-insignificant effort of walking 6 blocks to 16th & Mission (which is way up on the list of most sketchy BART stations) first thing in the morning. I really like taking public transport, but not that much. For sure taking BART is the more predictable option, time-wise, but we decided to roll the dice.
Thankfully, the car arrived on time and dropped us off without any major delay. As we were approaching Terminal 2, though, TripIt announced a 1 hour delay for our flight to LAX. This was a bad thing, as we only had 2 hours to change planes. As we arrived at the terminal this…