California Dreaming
Only in California. . . Actually, it's not a dream. We're here. Day 1 of Surfing Safari 2008. Jen and I have ventured to California to try out surfing. Been on our To Do list for a long time and we finally pulled the trigger on the plan about six weeks ago when we realized that it'd been about a year since we'd been anywhere of significance.
Good flight out of ORD today, though we had a bit of an incident in midair. About halfway into the 4.5 hour flight, there was a little commotion up near the front of the coach section. Woman had passed out, apparently, and the flight attendants had mobilized, asked on the intercom if there was a doctor on board, which there was, and attempted to help the lady. Calm was restored fairly quickly and the rest of the flight passed without incident. The captain even dipped the wing of our Boeing 757 to give the passengers a better view as we passed over the Grand Canyon.
While it's not exactly the warmest time to be in Cali, temps are in the high 60s to low 70s, it beats the hell out of the Midwest, which is still firmly locked into winter. We're staying in Huntington Beach, which has some fairly good surfing, we've found out, though it's not the high season for that activity. But, we're going to give it a whirl tomorrow and see what we can learn. This is Jen's first trip to the land of the Governator, my fourth, and it's nice for us to be able to get away for a while, if only for a few days.
Good flight out of ORD today, though we had a bit of an incident in midair. About halfway into the 4.5 hour flight, there was a little commotion up near the front of the coach section. Woman had passed out, apparently, and the flight attendants had mobilized, asked on the intercom if there was a doctor on board, which there was, and attempted to help the lady. Calm was restored fairly quickly and the rest of the flight passed without incident. The captain even dipped the wing of our Boeing 757 to give the passengers a better view as we passed over the Grand Canyon.
While it's not exactly the warmest time to be in Cali, temps are in the high 60s to low 70s, it beats the hell out of the Midwest, which is still firmly locked into winter. We're staying in Huntington Beach, which has some fairly good surfing, we've found out, though it's not the high season for that activity. But, we're going to give it a whirl tomorrow and see what we can learn. This is Jen's first trip to the land of the Governator, my fourth, and it's nice for us to be able to get away for a while, if only for a few days.
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