Home of the brave

I am now safely in Santa Monica, enjoying the delicate ambience that you can only get when surrounded by scores of Americans yelling in to their cellphones.

I had a pretty sweet flight over, as I managed to score an emergency exit seat (2 metres of leg room!). This afforded me the rare treat of being able to sleep on the plane for a significant part of the trip. And then to cap things off it only took 30mins from the time I got off the plane to the time I was outside the airport! A fast and efficient process at US Customs, whodda thunk it?

Next items on the agenda are: Mexico (Tijuana), San Diego, LA downtown, Disneyland. That should keep me going for a while.