August 27, 2008 11:45pm Home Time 8:45pm LA time
So the last two posts (combined into one) were written at BWI before boarding the plane. I am now in LAX waiting, yet again, to board. It’s 11:05pm home time and 8:00pm here. I leave in 2 hrs and 40min!! Wow!!! So traveling alone really isn’t all that bad. Again, it probably helps that I have gone this route before.
Two things I’ve noticed about raveling alone:
*You meet a lot of people if you allow yourself to
*You don’t have to worry about holding anyone else up
However – it is nice to have a traveling buddy.
The flight went fine. Ended up sitting with a 60yr old woman headed out to visit her grandkids and a 30 something year old guy born in El Salvador but moved here when he was 13. They were both quite talkative and very interesting, which was nice at first but kind of exhausting after six hours! It was good though – I didn’t even have to bust out my Narnia books on CD, which I was totally prepared and almost looking forward to listening to– oh well.
Didn’t realize my flight had a stop in Phoenix but it was quickish – I did get out and go to the bathroom and gave some of the Southwest staff a laugh when I heelied down the gate thing back to the plane. Southwest staff are so nice!
Soooo glad I brought the heeleys! I really debated over that but knew I would probably regret it if I didn’t bring them. They were quite fun once I got to LAX. A nice guy from my flight grabbed me a cart so I piled my 100+lbs of luggage on their and pushed / heelied it from terminal 1, past the international terminal, to terminal 6, where I sat on a bench and had dinner (the rest of my sandwich and apples . . .) I was sitting outside some Mexican airline and there was absolutely no one inside so I went in, shuffled my luggage and used their scales to make sure everything was the right weight.
Heelied back to the international terminal (btwn 3 and 4) where I checked in . . .
So the 7 hours hasn’t been too bad – def took advantage of that time to be outside and stretch the legs!!!
Think I’m gonna head to the bathroom to freshen up and maybe even change my shirt before the looooonnngggg flight. Gosh I hope I have an aisle seat – dahhh. I had an aisle on the flight here and it was still sooo long. Why does Australia have to be on the other side of the world???
Okay, I guess that is all for now. Not sure when I will be able to post next.
Oh, Granny – they couldn’t exchange that Australian $ here so it may just be a collector’s item! I’ll check once I get over there too.
Darn formatting - this isn't looking how I want it to - oh well
So the last two posts (combined into one) were written at BWI before boarding the plane. I am now in LAX waiting, yet again, to board. It’s 11:05pm home time and 8:00pm here. I leave in 2 hrs and 40min!! Wow!!! So traveling alone really isn’t all that bad. Again, it probably helps that I have gone this route before.
Two things I’ve noticed about raveling alone:
*You meet a lot of people if you allow yourself to
*You don’t have to worry about holding anyone else up
However – it is nice to have a traveling buddy.
The flight went fine. Ended up sitting with a 60yr old woman headed out to visit her grandkids and a 30 something year old guy born in El Salvador but moved here when he was 13. They were both quite talkative and very interesting, which was nice at first but kind of exhausting after six hours! It was good though – I didn’t even have to bust out my Narnia books on CD, which I was totally prepared and almost looking forward to listening to– oh well.
Didn’t realize my flight had a stop in Phoenix but it was quickish – I did get out and go to the bathroom and gave some of the Southwest staff a laugh when I heelied down the gate thing back to the plane. Southwest staff are so nice!
Soooo glad I brought the heeleys! I really debated over that but knew I would probably regret it if I didn’t bring them. They were quite fun once I got to LAX. A nice guy from my flight grabbed me a cart so I piled my 100+lbs of luggage on their and pushed / heelied it from terminal 1, past the international terminal, to terminal 6, where I sat on a bench and had dinner (the rest of my sandwich and apples . . .) I was sitting outside some Mexican airline and there was absolutely no one inside so I went in, shuffled my luggage and used their scales to make sure everything was the right weight.
Heelied back to the international terminal (btwn 3 and 4) where I checked in . . .
So the 7 hours hasn’t been too bad – def took advantage of that time to be outside and stretch the legs!!!
Think I’m gonna head to the bathroom to freshen up and maybe even change my shirt before the looooonnngggg flight. Gosh I hope I have an aisle seat – dahhh. I had an aisle on the flight here and it was still sooo long. Why does Australia have to be on the other side of the world???
Okay, I guess that is all for now. Not sure when I will be able to post next.
Oh, Granny – they couldn’t exchange that Australian $ here so it may just be a collector’s item! I’ll check once I get over there too.
Darn formatting - this isn't looking how I want it to - oh well
So this pic is actually from last time, after arriving in AU but you get the idea :)
I think all my math is right! Dad? Allison? Marian?