This morning was an early one as we had to check out of the hotel before 9am and have all our things and the car started up by 9am because we had a long drive ahead of us to get back to LA so that we could catch our flight back to Honolulu. Heading out of Vegas however, we stopped down at the Welcome to Las Vegas to take some photos (more Jetstar jumps yay!). It was then time to fill up the car as we were about running on empty, and the US has nothing to complain about the price of petrol - $2.24 a GALLON! That's about 60c a litre. Like seriously, no wonder they still consider Falcon/Commodore cars as medium sized cars…
Car filled up, the stereo set to the road trip playlist and with Las Vegas behind us, we continued down I-15 with the cruise control set to just above the speed limit (lesson learned from the trip to Vegas! I drove non-stop until we got back to Barstow where the In & Out Burger just in time for a bit of lunch. Bellies again full, it was only a couple of hours back into the limits of the Los Angeles area and it was directly to the closest Wal-Mart to check out the height of American consumerism and retail prowess. To give you a perspective about the size of a typical Wal-Mart, think about how big a typical Bunnings warehouse is, bolt on a Coles, Kmart and Target and you pretty much have the size of the store. I.e.: MASSIVE.
A quick stop in Barnes and Nobles later and it was time to begin making our way to the airport via a gas station to fill up the car, and the total petrol cost of driving to and from Los Angeles to Las Vegas (well over 1,000kms) was about AU$80 – freaking cheap!
Car returned and saying goodbye to Sally (that was what I had named her), we made our way to the American airlines terminal to check in for our flight and wait for our departure. The 5-hour flight was fairly non-eventful; the only thing of note was the mention of a USMC marine in the seat behind us and the whole plane gave applause – only in America. Arriving into Honolulu, we eventually made it to the hotel (Holiday Inn Waikiki) and settled down for the night, although Shauntelle did head out and make an appointment for tomorrow morning to get a second tattoo for this trip.
Overall a big day - three states/three cities/one day!
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