Epilogue

At the end of day 11, we went to the Honolulu airport at about 9:30 PM, HI time. Since the flight wasn't until 11:30 or so, and we went from front-door to through-security in 30 minutes thanks to Sabrina's platinum status, we had some time to kill in the Crown Room lounge.

That flight was about 5 hours, arriving around 7 AM due to time zone differences. We passed an hour or so in the Crown Room at LAX, and then left on the same, exact plane to ATL at 8:45 or so.

That flight was only about 3.5 hours, thanks to a 100mph tailwind over the middle of the country, putting us in ATL before 4 PM eastern.

The final leg to Allentown was from about 8 to 10 PM, where it was cold, wet, and grey.

It had snowed/sleeted/rained a few times since we were gone, and there is still white evidence everywhere. It was quite a system shock to go from Honolulu to Allentown in about 20 hours, and I probably looked strange wearing shorts and a "Hawaii" T-shirt getting off the plane in PA.

Kriebel was nice enough to pick us up from the airport, and we went home to unpack a little bit. I hadn't slept much on any of the planes, but Sabrina did, since, up until recently, she has had a lot of practice at that, and fits better in airplane seats. So I slept about 14 hours on Saturday night.

This, of course, meant that I was unable to sleep at a normal time last night, and ended up watching "The Way Of The Gun" at about 4 AM this morning, before finally going to bed. My car still had some snow on it, and I'm sure it wouldn't start, since it's on the verge of needing a new battery, and sat in the cold for 2 weeks without being started, so Sabrina drove me to work.

It's not bad to get back to work; I think that 2 weeks is long enough to forget what work is like, for me, so it was pleasant to have a fresh start today.