Denver-LA-Auckland -Christchurch NZ

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Left Denver Colorado after a flurry of phone calls to home, use up those cell minutes! Aboard my Frontier Airlines flight to LAX, (Kudos to Frontier! the best US airline Ive flown on!-thank you for the great service and not charging a traveling surfer big bucks for his board!) A fantastic evening approach into LA , the city lights just coming on through the smog, glued to the window as always, I love flying and seeing the world from above. A few hours in LAX, making even more calls, hanging out in the Bradley Terminal, watching the departure board clicking through the cities of the world and eating chinese food. Boarded my Qantas A330 to Auckland NZ just after midnite, 14 hours to cross the Pacific and the Equator. (Hats off to Quantas too! this was the most comfortable flight across the Pacific Ive ever had!)Lots of time to think about life, read my book, listen to my iPod, watch 'Kick Ass' and 'Dances with Wolves' Great food, and a liitle sleep when I needed (too excited to get much) Descended over New Zealands Great Barrier Island at daybreak , quick shower in Aukland Intl airport, and one hour to Christchurch NZ via Jetstar, down the South Island, again glued to my window seat, never gets boring over New Zealand! Its a gorgeous country and happy to be in back!

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ya just got to choose...
checking the Dep. board at Bradley Terminal, LAX. Reading the cities re-boots my memeories, as Ive walked in most of these places on previous journeys

North Island
Decending into Auckland NZ after a looong flight! Nice to see the green land of the Kiwi again!

Qantas A330
after 14 hours across the south Pacific...