Flight Home ... June 14-15,
2016
The actual time in the air is longer
going to Hawaii than it is coming home. This is
probably because of the prevailing winds. Our
experience has usually been that there are longer
layovers coming back and with the time zone changes, you
are flying during the night. All this adds up to a
much more strenuous trip coming home.
Mel, Kristin and Lilianna dropped us off
at Honolulu International at about 11 AM on Tuesday,
June 14. The check-in through TSA went extremely
smootly. It didn't take much longer than the
process in Watertown. We were in the air just
after 1 PM. That leg took just short of five
hours. With the time zone changes, we landed in LA
just after 9 PM, Pacific time. We had about three
hours there to have dinner in the airport and wait.
Our Philly flight took off just after midnight. We
landed in Philadelphia just before 8 AM, EST. We
had another three hour wait which turned into about
3-1/2 for some reason. This put us in Watertown
just after 1 PM on Wednesday, June 15.
The first 22 pictures were from the
first leg, Honolulu to LAX. These include a few of
the other planes that were lined up to take off when
were were, a couple of shots of Tripler Army Medical
Center where Mel works, Diamond Head Lighthouse and
Crater and what I think was Makapuu Point, although I
didn't see the lighthouse because that was on the
backside of the hill from us. LA to Philadelphia
was during the night so the only two pics we took were
of the sun coming up somewhere over the US. By the
Philly to Watertown leg I was just too tired to take any
pictures!
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