Day One - Jan 31, 2024
Anchorage, AK to Mid Air over Mexico
Tonight's Lodging:
Alaska Flight 1353
Today's Weather:
-2°F in Anchorage, 50°F and raining in Seattle, the high 70°’s in LA
High Point:
Has to be lounge access at LAX for 10 hours
Low Point:
Pulling an all-nighter in turbulence
Touristic Events:
Two airport lounges in two cities
Travel Tip:
Getting charging cables and batteries right can make all the difference
Miles By Plane:
2345
Miles By Automobile:
5
Daily Didactic
Travel days are hard to get excited about when you make a point to get the lowest mileage fair humanly possible. Not looking for pity, it is a deliberate approach to allow us more travel. In our case today this leads to a 3:00 am departure and an eleven hour layover at one of our least favorite airports (LAX). Since we have a few of this sort of trips planned for the year, we splashed out for a credit card that gives us lounge access. We don’t know if it makes any sense to put the money into the layovers instead of the plane seats, but we are about to find out.
Today's Photos
Is it 1:00am yet?
On the road again!
Three and half hours to Seattle
Three hours to LA
We are on the art plane!
Seattle weather
Us, winning the coach seat lottery
SEATAC departure.
Doing her thing
The coolest winglet
Following the dotted line
Descending into LA
A sprawling city
This looks promising!
Somebody found a free manicure
Brian found a room of chaise lounges
None of these folks could afford this place…