Today will mostly be taken up with travel. We just have enough time for one last walk along the strip. Preparations are ongoing for the weekends Honolulu marathon. We (I) play a very judgmental game of ‘here for the marathon/not here for the marathon with Daughter no 1 says Im a troll, then promptly joins in...
Then its time to check out and head for the airport. Google maps suggests that instead of catching the bus (20) which actually goes in to airport and takes 73 minutes, we catch a bus (42) that passes nearby the airport and takes 60 minutes, leaving us with a ‘4 minute walk to the terminal, and is therefore, allegedly, quicker. We fall for it and catch the 42. Once off the bus, we have to cross 2 freeways, walk round the airport perimeter road, which really isnt designed for pedestrians, then the full length of 2 multi storey car parks before we reach the terminal. It has taken a 20 minute walk, in the traffic, in the heat to finally reach the terminal building, right next to the 20 bus stop.
smoothly. Unless you count the queue for security, when the Japanese lady behind mes lack of social distancing reaches the point where we are physically touching. I am not impressed and tell her so. She doesnt speak English, but I think she gets the gist of my displeasure. Unlike on the outward journey, nobody is interested in our vaccine passports at check in, or at the gate. In fact, the only time we have to show them is in the caf to buy chips.
We board the plane – this time we are on Hawaiian Airlines which is very pleasant; a perfect trio of seat back entertainment, cheese sandwiches and rum punch make the journey fly by. They even demonstrate the emergency exits with a hula dance. In fact, Im a little disappointed when its time to land and I dont get to watch the end of my film. We pick up our hire car and return to Palo Alto for one last weekend with daughter no 2.
