A seat to Albuquerque next to a hilarious flight attendant who has great taste in comedians, rushing to my connecting flight in SLC (with a bleeding heel), finally seeing my parents waiting in the ABQ Sunport terminal...tight hugs, great jewelry shopping in Downtown ABQ, fleamarkets galore, a bigger suitcase, my funny 4-yr old niece demonstrating moves she's learned in karate class while shouting; "Do you want to punch me? NO! You think you're gonna kidnap me? NOOO!!" Too many casino visits to count, 102 and rising in Roswell, "really, i'm sure of it!! Yes! An ALIEN!", a mysterious lack of battery power on a fully charged battery.....
back to ABQ, after 5 hours at the ABQ airport getting on a flight towards home...or so I thought, getting to SLC airport, missing a connecting flight to CA, stuck in Salt Lake City for unimaginable hours, free shuttle to SLC art museums!, finally deciding the only way out of SLC is to go to Las Vegas (poor me!), yum Delta cookies!!, the Vegas Strip on 4th of July!
Never getting to Ontario International Airport but seeing the runway at LAX, 35 min bus ride to Union Station, art deco Union Station photo shoot, 40 min train ride to Montclair next to the nicest woman and her sweet dog who cuddled with me the whole ride and barked when I had to leave...
