The Trip Home from Hawaii
Hawaii April Travelog #35
Back home - Sun, 17 Apr, 2022, 7pm
We're home from Hawaii now. We got in at a respectable hour today, landing at the airport before 5pm and walking through our own front door before 6. The cost of getting in this early was leaving early. We were up at 6am and left our rooms before 7. The flight was about 5 hours with a 3 hour time shift.
I mentioned several blogs back that the big island of Hawaii is basically country despite being a tropical vacation destination. Yeah, Honolulu is a big city with lots of high-rise towers, but on this island even the bigger towns are still small town America. One sign of that is the airport. It's fairly small... and it's outdoors.
Our gate was literally a gate. We were outdoors, the aircraft was oudoors, a literal gate kept us separated until it was time to board.
The flight was pretty much uneventful. We left more or less on time and arrived a bit early. The wifi worked. The flight was long enough, though, that wifi didn't stop me from getting bored halfway through.
After we landed at SJC and waited for our checked bag to emerge we hailed a ride home with Lyft. It seemed weird that it was still bright out as we were riding home around 5:30pm. Usually we get home later in the evening. We could have opted for a flight leaving 3 hours later today, and then not had to get up at 6am, but then we'd have gotten home at least 3 hours later. Being home-home by 6pm allows us to unpack, clean up, and rest up before going back to work first thing tomorrow morning.
Back home - Sun, 17 Apr, 2022, 7pm
We're home from Hawaii now. We got in at a respectable hour today, landing at the airport before 5pm and walking through our own front door before 6. The cost of getting in this early was leaving early. We were up at 6am and left our rooms before 7. The flight was about 5 hours with a 3 hour time shift.
I mentioned several blogs back that the big island of Hawaii is basically country despite being a tropical vacation destination. Yeah, Honolulu is a big city with lots of high-rise towers, but on this island even the bigger towns are still small town America. One sign of that is the airport. It's fairly small... and it's outdoors.
Our gate was literally a gate. We were outdoors, the aircraft was oudoors, a literal gate kept us separated until it was time to board.
The flight was pretty much uneventful. We left more or less on time and arrived a bit early. The wifi worked. The flight was long enough, though, that wifi didn't stop me from getting bored halfway through.
After we landed at SJC and waited for our checked bag to emerge we hailed a ride home with Lyft. It seemed weird that it was still bright out as we were riding home around 5:30pm. Usually we get home later in the evening. We could have opted for a flight leaving 3 hours later today, and then not had to get up at 6am, but then we'd have gotten home at least 3 hours later. Being home-home by 6pm allows us to unpack, clean up, and rest up before going back to work first thing tomorrow morning.