If you have been reading this newsletter recently, you know that I have been on a trip to Salt Lake City, a one-day unplanned stay in Los Angeles, and then I spent more than two weeks in New Zealand where I attended two different genealogy events and took some holiday time as well. It has been grand.
I am now back home. However, I've been up for more than 36 hours, traveled more than 9,000 miles in the past 28 hours, and spent the last 28 hours riding three different airplanes or waiting in airport lounges. I'm going to bed. New newsletter articles will appear later today.
Hey Dick, Welcome home! Brian and I went through the same drill about 24 hours ahead of you. Get some rest!
Posted by: Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak | January 30, 2009 at 04:10 AM
The good news about travel in that direction is that you get to Los Angeles before you left New Zealand :-)
It's the leaving Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, and getting to Auckland the day after Christmas that's disappointing - Christmas lasts for some indeterminate small amount of time out over the Pacific Ocean somewhere, but Santa found us anyway - we'd jammed our stockings into the plastic frame around the windows and I was woken up by 2 stewardesses giggling in the aisle - they'd somehow reached over and grabbed them, taken them away and jammed them full of goodies from First Class and were figuring out how to get them hung back up on the window. So when we got to New Zealand we had Christmas Stockings, but no luggage. (But that's another whole story).
Posted by: theKiwi | January 30, 2009 at 08:45 AM
And thanks to all those intrepid conference speakers who made the trip to New Zealand and gave us all such a great time.
Posted by: Brenda Wheeler | January 31, 2009 at 05:12 AM