Jolt Country

Aloha! It's your old buddy AArdvark heading to the south Pacific for a 30th anniversary vacation!

Boarded the plane to Chicago and got right back off becaue storms closed O'Hare for two hours. Well, there's time for breakfast now....

Other notes while traveling. I will prepare blogs later

Layover waiting

Pajama travelers

Charging ports everywhere and the separate togetherness

The mrs. Is a human person not a kiosk person

Earrings

the neck pillow zombies

Ten thousand billion steps

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Car hop service at the cemetary

Southern California traffic, expected but disliked

AArdvark is not a people person before coffee in San Diego

The failure of tech breakfasts

So many kids

12 hours of jet lag

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The race track, from planes to cars to food

No matter where you go, there you are

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Apple carplay sucks if there's no operator skillz

What the volcano means to me

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Ice cream antipathy and minimum wage rage

Phone screen addiction and bad knees

Screen door controlled a/c

Everything is coming up pineapple

Pineapple TMT upside down flags
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Snow in the homeland and me not caring

Happiness is an empty parking space

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No rooms at the inn

British breakfast pub

Attack of the SF rat dogs

Being a drive-by tourist

Northern California traffic, expected but disliked

They wont fly away without you

Enjoy! I think you've been there before, no?

It's a long-ass flight. But worth it when you get there! What island(s) are you visiting?

I went back in '86, the Mrs. has never been.

The itinerary is three days in San Diego, fly to Kona for a week then two days in San Francisco before coming home. We wanted to break up the ten hour direct flight cause flying sucks. I got pix and stories soon!

If you have to spend a half day waiting around in uh Chicago airport you might as well grab some fast food for lunch.

Was really good but damn you could blow through money at these restaurants. That martini was almost as much as the entree.





I wanted to buy a couple bottles of Malort but the only place that sold booze was the duty free store and they didn't have any.

Once the storm blew over things got back to normal. Our waiter told us that a bunch of years ago a baggage handler got hit by lightning in one of those luggage hauler tractor carts; fried him but good. Ever since then they shut down ground operations when there's a big storm. Nothing lands or takes off untill it blows over. Which is why we missed our connection

I find it bemusing that the Chicago airport has a full size replica of a Jurassic dinosaur from the Field museum, but in Rochester we have full sized dinosaurs from a different age.

I do like what we did with our airport. I usually don't fly into it when I come in, because it is cheaper to go to Buffalo (and be greeted by the giant wall with Steve Tasker) but it IS nice.

I am going to take Wyatt to the Strong Museum of Play though, on one day, so if any of you are up for that let me know.

That kid is going to lose his mind there! He'll love it

The things you see behind a cemetery..

AArdvark wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:48 am Was really good but damn you could blow through money at these restaurants. That martini was almost as much as the entree.

''Vark, it's been known for years that airports cost a lot to operate, and that cost is imposed on the traveling public. Probably 20 years ago, I heard an ad for some company offering something discounted, "Have you ever noticed how expensive [our product] is. You want to buy some and it's priced like you're buying cigarettes at the airport."

Plus, everything in Hawai'i is expensive, because unless you're buying macadamia nuts or pineapples, it has to be imported from the mainland. Heh, he, heh, andf on top of that, if you're buying something at the Honolulu airport, be prepared to think that their prices make Whole Foods look like Aldi by comparison.

What, exactly, is your point? I knew it was going to be pricey. I know Hawaii will be expensive. Please share your vacation experiences with us

Help me Spock!

I'm a victim of 360 pan photo

Sparrows were looking for crumbs at sunset. I accommodated them with some cashews

Look what I'm drinking! Tastes like California whales!

Bet they can understand me if I start singing underwater

Legoland! I will eat you!

AArdvark wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:35 pm I went back in '86, the Mrs. has never been.

The itinerary is three days in San Diego, fly to Kona for a week then two days in San Francisco before coming home. We wanted to break up the ten hour direct flight cause flying sucks. I got pix and stories soon!

The big island? I am jelly. Please visit an active volcano and bring pics. Do not burn yourself or fall in while doing so.

There will be hot volcano action in the near future!

THE
VOLCANO
VS.
AARDVARK

We drove past LegoLand. It's this whole theme park with water slides and other stuff. I enjoy Legos but not to the point where I'd want to go to a whole theme park.

I'll say the same thing about a cartoon mouse

Sam Fisher was getting dropped off for a secret infiltration mission. Driving past Camp Pendleton