16May06 Friday
Los Angeles
Our flight arrived in LA at about 12:40PM after about 11 ½ hours in flight. Flying back is shorter by about 2 hours with the prevailing winds helping. Our first task was to rent a vehicle for our time in California and Hertz helped with that. We reserved a car from the airport and then took the Hertz bus to their offsite terminal. The scene there was interesting, there were about 20 agents renting cars as fast as possible. The line stretched all through their labyrinth and almost out of the office. They had a person there doing balloon animals to help entertain the kids. After some wait we were finally ready to load up and head out to Palm Desert.
We followed the agents directions to find out way to I10 that heads east out of the LA area out to Palm Desert. I10 goes out to Palm Desert and then on through Indio and eventually on to Phoenix.
After the stop and go traffic on the Interstate and driving for about an hour and a half we were ready for a rest stop and a bite to eat as now it was getting to be late afternoon. I sure do miss traveling with having your own kitchen to raid and having your own toilet to use anytime you need it.
We stopped at an exit on I10 close to Baldwin Park and pulled into an “In and Out Hamburger” station. After ordering and while standing there waiting for our order a “bloke” next to me asked how the hamburgers were at this place. I said that we weren’t from there and were traveling through and didn’t know. I asked where he was from recognizing an accent and he said that he was from New Zealand. I told him that it was a coincidence as we had just arrived back from New Zealand that afternoon. He said that he had just arrived also from New Zealand and after some conversation here it turned out that we were on the same plane. It turned out that he and another guy had came from NZ and met up with two of their friends from Australia who had flown in from Australia on Qantas. It was kind of a small world situation considering we both had made a random stop.
We drove on as far as Ontario but decided to stop for the evening as we were both tired and feeling the effects of travel.
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