BLOODY BLOODY Greyhound:
I got to the Santa Rosa terminal. (I later discovered that the Discovery Pass is a "walk on pass" and as such you are the last to get on, and the seats are limited) I had to get on this bus to get back to LA in time to catch my plane back home to Brisbane.
Well guess what.. the seats ran out before I had a chance to get on the bus. Now I start to worry again. Went back to where I was staying with Megan, got on the laptop and looked at options. San Francisco - Greyhound had plenty of options heading to LA so I just had to get to SF.
Well guess back to "Golden Gate Transit" the bus that wouldn't let me take luggage on it. So I packed everything I could into my back pack. And headed for the bus made it with time to spare. Met a guy at the bus stop that asked if I was cold.. and then he noted my accent. And we got to talking. Here is this US guy that knows about australia. And further more he knew where nimbin was and was talking about doing a tour around australia. He reminded me of a friend back home in his appearance and just the conversation with him.. He also suggested things I could do in LA while waiting for the plane. although mind you I was down to my last $20US or so. While I didn't tell him that.. It wasn't an option.
But it was amazing to know what he knew about my country and we just randomly met while waiting for the same bus we were taking San Fran direction.
(yeah folks NIMBIN is internationally known)
Interestingly enough he didn't know about Byron Bay... go figure.
Well that for the most part was the worst part about getting home.. much lighter without the luggage (which I left with my now ex(cause I was coming back anyway so no big deal))
I did have this woman that sat behind me that seemed to spontaniously burst out into laughter.. which was interesting.. that soon grew old cause I got into the city and finally on the bus headed back to LA.. and well she was on the same bus to LA and this time I think she was about 2 seats a head of me.. Now its a 7 hour bus trip to LA at night and well it grew old pretty quick... Although I'm sure it wasn't something she could control and I don't judge her for it, but it did make the trip all the more challanging..
Got back to the LA greyhound terminal at about 5:40 in the morning and waited around till about 7-ish for the shuttle to the LAX airport i had pre arranged and got to the airport at about 7am.
To my disappointment the AirNZ terminal(with whom I was flying didn't open till 1pm local time) and lets just put it this way.. there isn't much to do at the airport besides waiting in the arrival section which doesn't have much in the way of entertaingment or food or anything infact.
So it was a 4-5 hour wait for the terminal to open.. then my flight left at 9:30pm.. so yeah it was about an 8 hour wait for the flight once I had go through security and all the other stuff.
From then on I was on my way home. Another transit in NZ and then back on Familar ground.
I tell you it was a challenge at times.. But I still love the whole experience because of it.
Stay Tuned in the future for my Second trip to the US.
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