http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , California , Los Angeles , LAX en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:59:34 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:59:34 UTC This past weekend I flew to Portland to spend time with my two team mates from Tanzania and to watch one of them get married. It was my first real wedding I went to my cousin's at the age of 12 but don't remember much and it was great to see such strong Christians pronounce their unity to the world and make a covenant with God.Since coming back from Tanzania I have been praying over missions a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-348528.html Its 800 PM Pacific Time.Waiting at Gate 77 for the next leg on the journey. Its been a long day and it is still early in the trip. Not complaining just tired lol.Spoke to Toni when I got here she is well but would rather be with me on this trip. Well this is just a short note next entry will be from Sydney.John http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-344601.html Our last day boo hoo The kids are ready for home and seeing their friends but Steve and I would like another couple of years before we have to go back to the drudgery of work. Even a few more days to wind down would be nice I should have booked a couple of days at the beach on the way home Next time...So we pack up the suitcases squeezing everything we could in every little space but http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-338433.html Our bright idea to save money was to stay the night in Honolulu airport and catch our early flight to LAX. However when we arrived at the airport just after midnight not only was it not a 24 hour airport but most of it was open air. Unfazed by the situation Dale and Ollie nodded straight off laying on concrete I think Mark had a bit more trouble.After a healthy breakfast courtesy of Burger http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-335618.html Hi allWe are coming to the final day of our trip booooLas Vegas was cool we are probably about even on the money up a bit on Roulette and Dave finally sussed out the black jack which I could not get to grips with All winnings were put to good use on new shoesWe also managed to take in a show Mamma Mia fantastic well I thought so Dave is not really an ABBA fanAnyway just a quick n http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-328801.html So....Our flight got delayed out of LA to the Cook Islands because the Captain got sick. Hmm...So now we fly out at 5am tomorrow morning Monday and have to stop in Hawaii for a few hours to pick up a NEW captain.They put us up in the Sheraton Hotel and gave us 100 to order room service so we ordered EVERYTHING on the entire menu. Literally..wings burgers milkshakes salad. This screws us up http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-326181.html Okay so I'm going to try this travel blog one more time. I don't know how long it will last but I'll try to keep you posted on the many different destinations that I get to. Here's a quick run down of my itinerary for the next 7 months. Today I'm flying to Italy. Actually in about an hour and a half and technically I'm flying to Germany first with a two hour tour of all the things Frankfur http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-324398.html YEAAAAA so the two of us have tagteamed a nice asian business man...why did we tag team him you ask well cuz the dude had a computer thats whyin celebration of our accomplishment jen and i have decided to post the first 5 pictures of asia tour 2008 please bare in mind that these pictures were taken under extreme circumstances...the weather was HORRID when we left this morning... http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-316932.html I am still not quite yet off to Australia but had a great day in L.A. with Jill. So good to catch up with her and reminisce about all the fun times we had in El Paso. We had a fabulous day riding up the coast to Venice Beach for a good breakfast and a quick jaunt on the beach. We then headed further up the coast to my fav Malibu restaurant Gladstones baby for some yummie oysters and coconut http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-309959.html It's the day of departure. It came so quickly I almost ran into a problem at JFK airport. My scheduled flight was already delayed and it was not going to make it to LAX in time for the connecting flight to Taipei. They were able to put me at the top of the standby list for an earlier flight. Thankfully my bag and I made it to LAX. Now I'm waiting for the flight to Taipei. Total flight ti http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-307718.html So... i'm back Sorry for the lack of photos by the way i have taken hundreds possibly thousands I know I took nearly 200 todayyou may see why later but there are never any USB cables for me to connect them Also sorry for the lack of private messages Trek is so crazy I never get more than 20 minutes which is literally just to check email and update this so I hope this satisfies any curiositie http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-306185.html I am sitting in front of an all american motel in the middle of the night. It is 2 am but the city of LA like me seems to have trouble trying to get to sleep. A drunken latino man is strawling through the street in front of me a fat lady is going out of her room to get another pillow from her car and young couples max 18 in cabriolet cars are trying to get a room for a few hours to do what http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-305603.html So I had finally made it. Los Angeles the City of Angels was to be the last stop of my North American tour. And it was a brief stop. I flew in on Saturday night and would be leaving on Monday morning.Once again I flew with Virgin America and once again I was on the Dark Horse. Unfortunately or maybe that should be fortunately there was no entertainment from the cabin crew. I was left in http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-302862.html After hatching this idea last October my departure day finally arrived I leave for my world trip carrying a backpack weighing a mere 25lbs woohoo a daypack purse with all my important electronics gum and a carryon Trader Joe's plastic tote weighing 500 lbs All magazines books. You'd think I'd never traveled on a 10 12 hr flight before I had 12 magazines 3 books. I read a few pages http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-299562.html Hey guys...well it's been quite a few days or weeks since I have put up a post and in that time a lot of exciting not to mention AWESOME things have happened.To start with the flight over was long to say the least and I barely slept. However I was next to this nice OZ couple so that was good. By the way Melbourne duty free is so cool. Anyway after the 13.5hour flight to LAX California I http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-298937.html Kallie and I left Exuma today for the first part of our two day travel to get to Beijing. We left Miami just before sunset and chased the sun all the way to Los Angeles. Our flight to LA was full of interesting characters. The best character was Natalie who shared row 8 with us. She is a dive master and a major hotshot at Apple. Really down to earth and a great person to chat with for the 5 h http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-297823.html On Friday June 20 2008 I went to work as usual in Walnut Creek CA. Karla took Nisha and Mia to the doctor for the last series of shots before our trip. I came home around 4pm we gathered our gear ate dinner and headed out the door at 600pm. I drove down I5 to LAX where our plane awaited us. We arrived sometime around midnight our plane left at 200 a.m. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-295673.html We've all heard horror stories about US airports. Queues winding outside the terminal and down the road uncompromising officials asking obscure and obtuse questions and of course the laundry list of biometric data that they now extract without humour or lubrication. The stories of people transiting through L.A. and missing the connecting flight because they were still going through security e http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-294139.html After a 2 hour nap on the night of the 27th I was off to the airport... arrival time 430am. Let me first tell you that 330am should not exist for anyone... especially meMy frazzled brain and overstimulated body were no match for international departures and it was a bit hard for me to figure out what to do... Let's just say that it had been a while since I'd flown internationally a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-293448.html June 15 2008We're off We're heading to Los Angeles today to spend the night so that we can be at the airport at 600AM Monday June 16th. Our first leg is Chicago. We hope there aren't any storms that will delay our flight. From Chicago we fly to Munich Germany and from there we head to Kiev. If you would like to check in you can go to the floowing URL www.travelblog.orgBloggersPetrushka http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-287336.html Today Im excited tomorrow I fly to Vegas. Yes its party time. So Sunday I went to the Baseball San Diego Padres vs New York Mets. The Stadium is right in Downtown SD which is kinda weird. Its pretty new and it has one of them crazy american type sponsors Petco i love how the new stadiums have these sponsors. So we sat down I was surprised at the amount of Mets fans considering the distance I guess http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-286033.html Dear Family Friends As Dave and I got on a very early American Eagle Flight from Monterey to LAX we knew our long awaited time had come. We are truly off on our Big Adventure. We have been preparing for this day for 18 months so you can imagine our excitement Before we leave California's golden shores we just want to THANK all of you who have wished us good luck safe travels and Godspee http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-284760.html Hi Guys. Have arrived at the airport at 1.23am your time it is 23 degrees and nice and warm. Currently the time here is 823am on the same day I left tasmania. Spent most of my time reading Jeremy Clarksons book Clarkson on Cars and i must say its a hoot of a read. Listened to my mp3 player drank beer and slept LOTS. Now i fear that my arse has permanantly been moulded to the 747's seat s http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-277535.html In February 2008 our team will embark on a new expedition driving from Le Havre France to Cape Town South Africa. Our route is planned to Expedition will take us through Europe heading southeast through France Italy Croatia Serbia Bulgaria Greece to Turkey Syria Lebanon Jordan Egypt the Sudan Ethiopia Kenya Tanzania Zambia Botswana and Namibia then across to the East Coast http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-276144.html The start of our 5 week adventureThanks to our private chauffeur Mr B we arrived at Heathrow in good time and free from stress ThanksSo then the flight.... Virgin Atlantic NICE Plenty of food nice attendants and a great start to the trip... only mildly hampered by an entertainment system that seemed to have a mind of it's own and decide that you really didn't want to watch Bourne Ultimat http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-272563.html So I know this was from a long time ago but I just discovered this on my computer and decided that I needed to put it up. This is from the night that I flew from LA to BNE That seems so long ago... Hi there friends Today is the day that I get to leave the US behi http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-262553.html I'm leaving from LA to head down to Costa Rica. I'll be taking the bus down to Bocas for a few days. A few weeks ago I went and spoke to a group of kids in a Kids for Peace group. They made 29 peace pack bags to take down to Panama. The peace packs are drawstring bags with a handprint on them from one of the kids for peace and filled with school supplies a stuffed animal a rubber ball and a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-251660.html