Day 1: Hawai'i Bound
Now I remember why I stopped blogging. I'm not really good at this "do it live, one take, let it all hang out" style of writing. Most times it takes me a little while to get my thoughts together. My usual process is to put things down, let them coalesce, see if I can find the themes, and do a lot of editing before I post something. But that's not conducive to this style of blogging, which is: get the details of my trip out ASAP because the people crave content! Well, we shall see. Tamara points out this was not our longest travel day. We went to Montreal in July, and that trip took about 19 hours, from getting to the airport to arriving at our AirBnB. This trip only took 15 hours, and we covered almost 5600km. That's 373km/hour -- and most of that was from us hustling through customs in Vancouver trying to make our connecting flight. (Montreal was a mere 124km/h. That is a particularly slow day on the Number 1.) The flights were mostly uneventful. We had Brian (...