I arrived at LAX on Thurday morning the 26th of September after the obligatory 13 hour journey across the pond....this time from Brisbane. For all the service difficulties that Qantas have, the addition of the personal video screens have made the trip across literally "fly" compared to the good old days of "92 when I made my first trip to the States. A couple of ripping movies (White House Down, The Internship, The Heat, Fast and Furious 6) and I was landing in LA before I knew it. Customs was successfully negotiated in good time and I trekked across to the Southwest terminal for my 11am flight to Las Vegas where I reconnected with Mac and Vanessa who had arrived a week and a half earlier in order to spend some quality time with the Out Laws in downtown BHC Arizona.

An hour and a half later and we were pulling off the 95 and heading down toward Laughlin and Bullhead and my first taste in 3 years of In 'n Out burger. For those of you who haven't had the deeply moving religious experience of a Double/Double then you are missing out on one of life's true highlights. Even at 46 years young, the taste never gets old or taken for granted. I will once again treasure a visit to church before I leave in 6 days time I can assure you. (And if you think I'm kidding, then visit the Las Vegas outlet on East Tropicana. Our visit there had a queue almost out the door of one of the biggest In 'n Outs that I've ever seen, and a drive thru line that was so long it required a waitress with a I-Pad to take orders before the cars had reached the microphone).

A leisurely 3 nights with Maxine and Larry in one of my favorite parts of the country ensued before we headed up to Vegas for our Sunday morning flight to the House of the Mouse....Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida, our East Coast home away from home.