Monday, 17 December 2007
Rose at 4:30, packed kids, bags and all into our Budget Tarago and were on the road by 6:00. Probably just as well because the traffic to Brisbane was just as bad as expected. Took us 90 minutes. Our EVA flight was 35 minutes late and did not make up lost time en route. Consequently we had just 50 minutes to transfer to our LAX flight in Taipei. Another 777, we had wrongly assumed it would be a 747, and we had the same seats, 7H and 7K. Service was good and the food was, surprisingly, excellent but there was a lot of turbulence throughout the flight. Took forever (1.5h) to clear customs but finally arrived Howard Johnson, Anaheim at 17:30. Rod and family had checked in 3 hours earlier and organised adjoining rooms on level 7.