Los Angeles and adieu

Our Delta flight was a B767 with winglets, a 4.25 hour flight across the country. It seems a cheat to be retracing the path of two weeks' drive in a few hours.

I love the view of the land from the air across western USA, once the fields give way to the desert country. The colours are rich and the folds, wrinkles and canyons are a masterpiece.

We landed on time, collected baggage and headed off to a new (for us) car rental company, Fox, to collect our Chevy Camero. And then we hit serious traffic on our way down to Long Beach. After several thousand miles, this is the first traffic of the holiday.

Checked in, car parked, out into the LA sunshine to the Yard House again. We keep returning as the food is tasty, the beer plentiful and it has a great atmosphere.

Saturday. Last day in the USA. We depart at 2355hr on the Virgin Australia flight direct to Brisbane, so have plenty of hours to spend in LA.

As we've come from the east coast with 3 hour time difference, we were awake early, and set off for Malibu for breakfast.

I'd found Coogie's Beach Cafe on the internet, and thoroughly enjoyed the drive there and back via the beginning of Highway 1. It was a gorgeous morning and the traffic was light.

From there we did a little shopping and a little LA driving.

Re-packed and off to the airport. No trouble checking in or dropping off the car.

Thanks for reading my blog. I hope that you enjoyed the journey with us. It was 3912 miles all up. And we enjoyed almost every mile.

I'm always really grateful to the gods if travel when we get to this point on trip and we've been well, not delayed, no flat tyres, and no other dramas.

Not quite looking forward to home, but I guess there's the next adventure to plan.