Welcome to our USA road trip blog! I’m writing this first entry in LA Airport, where we’re experiencing a strange sense of déjà vu. Probably because we are sitting by a window at 8:30am on Wednesday the 7th September, watching planes being serviced, and something like 15 or 16 hours ago, we were sitting by a window at 8:30am on Wednesday the 7th September, watching planes being serviced. Different city, same thing. Except this time we’re a little more disheveled.
The flight over was actually really good, on the scale of long-haul flights. We started things off well by only having 21kg of luggage between us (oh yeah, are we gonna shop!), and I managed to get an aisle seat. Then things improved when we realized nobody was taking the window seat next to us! V Australia is a really good airline – mostly because all their stuff is new, but also because the Virgin sense of humour is apparent everywhere. On the backs of the tickets, the napkins, the tray table mats – even the safety video! In this, they said “if you’ve caught a plane in the last century, you’ll know that smoking is not permitted on-board”. The flight also had “mood lighting”, which meant the lights alternated between muted shades of purple, blue, yellow and green. I love a good gimmick.
The awesome thing about travelling with someone, in contrast with my usual nigel no-friends trips, is that you instantly have access to more sleeping room on the plane (courtesy of personal space invasion), more food (especially with Matt, since he only eats 50% of each meal), AND there is someone to mind your bags! So up to this point, the trip is already a step up from most others I’ve been on!
Pretty goddamn ready to leave this airport though. Only an hour and a half more waiting to do, then we’re on our way to Vegas! Hopefully the sizeable volume of diet coke we’ve consumed keeps us going till the end of the day…
Great to read that things are going so well. Everything going well here too. Great weather in London. Off to Paris tomorrow. Keep safe.
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