Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Here’s what has happened since leaving Zihuatanejo, Mexico on Sunday morning:

• Arrived at LAX
• Found no commuter flights would put us in SFO before our flight back to LAX for our connection to Tokyo and eventually Auckland
• Brainstormed genius idea of renting a car and hauling ass up I-5
• Rented car and hauled ass up I-5
• Arrived in San Mateo at 5:45am, washed face, picked up luggage, refilled rental car and back at SFO by 6:25am
• Flew business class to LAX on Alaska
• Got denied business class for our LAX-NRT flight via the pass-the-buck game. The desk lady at Northwest told us business class was full and as we were boarding I heard her say there were still seats available!
• Sat on a plane for 13 hours.

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This is what I’ve been waiting for since we got here: taqueria showdown! Although they advertised four kinds of meats, they only had carne asada but the taste was great. I also liked the assemble-it-yourself approach to the onions, cilantro, salsa and fresh limes. Still, if this place was across the street from Taqueria Cancun, there isn’t yet a question on which side of 6th and Market I would eat.

PS – if you think you’ve got the hang of something like body boarding and your confidence is up, and you think to yourself, “I could handle some bigger waves, this really isn’t that hard”, you should take a 15 minute break. Because if you do not, …