Flight and first "night" in Santa Clara

Monday, September 15, 2008

Alright, no I finally made it into the US. My flight started 15:00 CEST in Germany, and 12 hours later, I reached Los Angeles (18:00 PDT). There I had to wait 4 hours for my next flight, but like on every good flight, I came to know some nice girl, which was travelling with me till Santa Barbara. So after the next flight there in a tiny 50-passenger machine, I was alone again, and it was like 0:00 PDT.

As my next flight was just going to leave in 6 hours and as nobody else was on the really tiny airport yet, I tried to sleep a bit, which was sadly impossible due to the loud announces every 10 minutes. At 3 o'clock some other traveller arrived via bus (who was some metal-head as well ;)) and so I had some with who I could spend some hours of talking.

Then when my next flight was leaving, and I came through the security check, I was informed that I would be the only passenger on the flight. So I walked to the airplane and were welcomed by a nice stewardess to my "private jet":



Well, after another hour, I reached my final target, San Jose, where I took a taxi to my hotel. When I arrived there (8 o'clock), I had some problem with the check-in, as I had to credit card. So I contacted my boss via ICQ (they had open wlan in the lobby), and resolved the issue quickly. 3 hours later I could finally go to sleep (I was awake for 33 hour then). When I woke up, it was 5 o'clock in the morning, so it was kinda a perfect timing.

Comments to this article

  • Avatar of Anja Reply Anja Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:30 AM

    Wow - quite an experience, little brother ;) An on all my flights, I never had the whole plane to myself - that's pretty special what you had there ;)
    Have fun at the conference and exploring Amiland.
    Dein Schwesterherz

  • Avatar of Toppy Reply Toppy Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:14 AM

    You're getting close to me. Come visit. You're less than 1500 km away, just head due north.

    I noticed the cost of beer has increased since yesterday. This isn't Germany. We don't have an endless supply of affordable beer you know. Slow down!

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