Most of the way home
Jan 24th, 2008 by Nick
Greetings from the Red Carpet Club at Los Angeles International Airport. The flight home was about 90 minutes shorter, and it seemed to go by much faster. The food was worse than usual, and I still can’t find a comfortable way to sleep fully reclined in United’s business class seats - compared to American’s where I’d been known to sleep an entire Chicago-London flight from the end of takeoff to breakfast.
I managed to get about four hours sleep, mostly in the last half of the flight. It took about an hour to get through immigration, customs, and then back through security for the domestic flight. My flight to Chicago leaves in 45 minutes, so I’m off to find some food before heading to the gate.
I’ll have a few more thoughts next week - “best of” lists, etc. But it’s been a busy three weeks. I’m happy that I took the trip, and I think that all in all it worked out very well.
I hope you’ve enjoyed reading along.
NJV,
Glad to hear the trip home has been uneventful. I’m eager to hear/read your thoughts about Australia and the Aussie people.
Oh, and you write well.
Nick,
We look forward to seeing you soon. We have Christmas presents for you -
books to read on your trip and stuff. We have to rewrap one of them; Nicky
found a present labeled “Nick” in a B&N bag and opened it. Then he figured
out it must have been for you. “You should have labeled it ‘Uncle Nick’!”
K-)