Home Again, Home Again - Thursday, March 21, 2024

With an early-morning flight from Kona, Hawaii, I was up at 4 am, finished packing, showered, and woke Bob at 5 am. On the way to the airport, we stopped at Costco to fill the rental car's gas tank, returned the rental car, and took a shuttle to Hawaiian Airlines baggage check. Our flight from Kona was on time at 7 am and there were no issues flying to Honolulu. 

Bronze Hawaiian hula statues at
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport. 
"Hula Kahiko," by Lark Grey Dimond-Cates.

I could not find this exact image, but it
looks like Hawaiian vintage poster art.
The poster was enlarged on the wall
in one of the airports.

At Honolulu International Airport our flight was also on time, but we had some delays at the gate. Before leaving, a sensor had to be replaced in the cockpit. Our flight time is supposed to be 7-1/2 hours non-stop to Austin. We were an hour late leaving, but Hawaiian Airlines is good about making up time in the air. 

We arrived in Austin on time, but an aircraft was at our gate. We had to wait about 45 minutes for the aircraft to move. Then we collected our luggage, retrieved our car from long-term parking at a hotel, and drove back to San Antonio. We arrived home after midnight. This was a long day!

We'll be home three weeks until our next trip. When we leave in mid-April with our 5th wheel, we'll be doing four different vacations in one: Ruidoso, New Mexico, for our West Texas Trail Walkers planning meeting (for walks in October 2024), a visit to Aunt Sally, Charis, and Mike in Phoenix, a trip to Las Vegas to spend time with Bob's mom, Louise, and a week-long camping vacation to Silver City, New Mexico, with our long-time friends Rick and Jan Roemmick.

Those blogs will be coming soon, along with a week's worth of catch-up blogs from our New Zealand cruise! Wheee!