June 3: Homeward bound

June 3
Our June 3 was about 40 hours long.

Got on the bus to the airport at 1 p.m. Got to the airport at 3 p.m. (Flight took off at 5 p.m. I will not not not get started on the self-entitled asshole family that was seated in business class with the two sick kids who resulted in our flight being detained by the quarantine officers once we got to LA. No I won't mention that at all.) Got into LAX at 11 a.m. the same day (that's the great thing about flying home from Asia: You time travel.

LAX is an awful pit that is analogous to a third world country. We had a six-hour layover there. It's a horrible, horrible place. We were also up for about 30 hours by that point.

That is all.

Would I go back? (To Japan, not LAX.) Sure. But I have a long, long list first. That said, if you’re considering it, go. We had a great time (though a bit exhausting but that is more us than the trip). And if you like shopping, and have some money to spend, then by all means, go for it. But we did quite well spending very little and wandering quite a bit. It is immensely entertaning.

Sorry for any typos, boring writing, stupid formatting stuff. It's been almost a week and I need to get this live.

Enjoy, and stay tuned for the next Groonin travels--somewhere, but I don't know where or when. Justin has forbade any talk of travel for the forseeeable future...