4 hours 3 minutes
1519 miles
Seat 6A
This is it! Headed home! Every time they mention the air time for the flight it gets shorter. We are now down to a 3 hours 40 minute flight and we haven’t even left the ground. Oh, now we are paused at the gate while they do some maintenance. They are going to be speeding, I’m sure of it. It has been a great journey, but I’m looking forward to being home finally.
2 hours 59 minutes
1223 miles
Seat 6A
I made it safe and sound to Long Beach. The flight was pretty straight forward and I shot somewhere around 80 pictures of clouds and the left wing of the plane. There was a kid who spent the first half of the flight yelling “Good bye Texas” in my ear, and the second half was “Hello California.” It was cuter than it sounds. For a while. But I was sitting next to his dad, so I couldn’t really snarl too much. I didn’t sleep so well last night since I was pretty worked up over the trip, but I managed to catch a few winks between good byes and hellos.
But I got in just fine, and caught a bus to Broadway and Redondo, picked up the keys to Joey’s place at the bar and I am now settled in Long Beach. I got some awesome fish and chips at E. J. Malloy’s and now I’m wrapping up my day at The Library before we head out on the town.
AUS to LGB self portrait:
