Smarte Cartes at the airport are genius. The trick is to wait by the rent-a-car shuttles ‘cause THAT’S where people leave their empty SmarteCartes (from now on they shall be pronounced smart-ay cart-ayz). I refused to pay the $4 for one SmarteCarte but once I had one in my possession, life at LAX was grand! I have 7 hours to kill between flights at LAX today. Sitting on the plane is never the best – and I totally got stuck in the same aisle with the tantrum-throwing-terrible-two-year-old boy. So, my SmarteCarte and I traveled from Terminal 2 to Terminal 7, checked in our luggage ($50 later for two bags) and headed to the International Terminal for some food and to kill some time.
Julie and Julia was the movie playing on the airplane-ride to Los Angeles. I have the voice commentary in my head now – since there’s no one around for me to talk to. Unlike Julie Powell, I am not a writer. However, I think I have some pretty funny things to say sometimes and would like – just as everyone does – to get these thoughts out of my head.
Example #1) When to eat? I don’t think I’m hungry - they fed me a little snack on the plane – but now it’s dinner time and getting cold so I think I should eat. I’m about to hop on an overnight flight and will REALLY be screwed up on any kind of eating schedule.
Example #2) Without being able to take water on the flights anymore, you are totally screwed when it comes to hydration. Even if I grab water at one of the restaurants, I’m going to have to dump it at security before I get to my gate. What a waste. I brought my Nalgene in hopes of staving off thirst, but I have already had to dump its contents into a security trash can.
Example #3) Speaking of security: I had to remove my shoes, belt, two jackets, and scarf while taking my laptop out of my purse and placing my gallon Ziploc of fluid containers into a security bin. Talk about feeling exposed!
Anyways, there's tons more to talk about on Sarah's Great Adventure Across America day 1 but I gotta take another nap...
Ciao!
