The Native Iowan

730pm Pasadena time. Grace is asleep on the sofa. I’m not far away.

We started travelling yesterday, with a 4am wake up. At the airport by 7am. Our flight left about 11. We landed in LA 7am this morn local time, 12 midnight Aussie time. Total travel time was over 20 hours. The flight was good. Both Grace and I slept a bit.

But we’re time-warped.

Tomorrow will be busy. And hot. We left QLD winter and enter Cali summer. We went out for a walk, a trip to the store a while ago. Didn’t walk far but worked up a good sweat.

And the beat goes on. Always interesting to come back to the land of plenty… There is so much I forget to remember… the portions served are huge. We ordered a couple of  toasted sandwiches and could have easily shared one. Ordered pretty unremarkable cups of latte and a cuppacino, forgetting that yanks prefer brewed coffee. Next time I’ll have a standard BUNN-brewed cup of “joe”.

I’ll get my bike out tomorrow. Cook some here at home. See how long it takes to sort things out, then head off to Iowa.

And the beat goes on…