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Jetting across the USA

Yesterday Yesterday was a “spare” day which we kinda “filled-in”.  As we were flying on standby from Auckland to Los Angeles, it’s best to have a spare day before continuing on to Florida.  So, we filled in the day with seeing crew friends that were overnighting here and eating at Kim’s favourite places.  We also […]

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Staying with friends

We landed at Los Angeles in the early afternoon.  Because Air New Zealand uses Terminal 2, the manouvering and parking for the large jet was tight, so it is normal to have the aircraft towed to its final position.  But it seemed strange that the aircraft was being towed with its engine roaring. Once we […]

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Sightseeing

Mini sightseeing I woke around 0600 and managed to get ourselves downstairs for breakfast at 0700.  Kim organised a rental car by phone with Lucky Cars located at the Howard Johnson Hotel. They have some very beaten up cars that wouldn’t be legal in some countries.  Kim s is a regular customer of theirs on […]

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Heading south

We checked out after breakfast.  A voucher was required for payment to the Daytona Beach hotel but we hadn’t received it.  But the lady at reception said she would sort it out. It was nearly 4h driving south to Fort Lauderdale.  We stopped for fuel and a Subway lunch in the city of Jupiter about […]

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Meeting up

Today is our second (of two) full day in Los Angeles.  Yesterday, we got a rental car and went to some of the places that Kim likes.  He’s here once or twice a month as crew and knows the various places well.  We did a little bit of shopping and eating. But being carless today, […]

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