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| International Church House |
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| House Stairway |
Today was another very early morning. We had a 6 AM flight out
of Copenhagen to Amsterdam, which meant we needed to be at the airport by about
4:30. Ron & Vonnie were kind enough to get up that early and take us to the
airport, on the opposite side of town from their house. We made that with time
to spare.
It's a fairly short KLM flight to Amsterdam, and there we had a
couple hour layover before the flight to Los Angeles. That one was 10.5 hours
"over the pole." Not exactly, but over Iceland and Greenland,
Hudson's Bay, and south from there to LA. Not that we could see out since we
were in the middle section of a 747.
Those international flights are still good, as they serve two
meals (with wine) and plenty of snacks and water along the way. Or coffee, juice,
pop. The international terminal is still under reconstruction at LAX, so it was
a long taxiing to the terminal. And then all the usual process of immigration,
retrieving luggage, customs, etc. Then you are out of Security and need to
catch an airport bus to another terminal for the flight home on Alaska
Airlines.
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| Yosemite Valley |
That accomplished, we had a fairly long layover for the flight
home. Probably because we were using frequent flyer miles and had to take what
they gave. Out of LAX we were on the right side of the plane so that we had
views of the Sierra Nevada mountains along their entire length. Once again we
clearly saw Yosemite Valley, Mono Lake, and Lake Tahoe. North of there, the
clouds obscured the ground mostly, and the report was rain in Portland. When we
arrived in Portland, it was partly cloudy and no rain. Which meant we made it
through the entire trip without getting rained on (except overnight in
Copenhagen the night before). Orlie picked us up and brought us home. With all
the flights and layovers, we had been up for about 27 hours with fitful sleep
on the plane.
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| Lake Tahoe |
That was a good ending to a great month-long trip!
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