Day 16: The Long Day Home

Last day of this view and couldn’t resist one more picture

One thing we have forgotten to mention throughout this trip is the State of Hawaii’s love of “Speed Humps” versus Speed Bumps. The hump is definitely more gradual than a bump, but we have cracked up each time we saw them… guess gradual is more vacation-friendly 😂

We made it to the airport and were SO thankful we were not on Hawaiian Air today. They were having crazy computer issues so no online check in and nothing could be done ahead of time. Tempers were HOT and the line was awful!

Then we got to TSA and were again thankful for God’s provision that we had the CLEAR screening ahead of time (TSA Pre-check). Actually, we bought it last year when we were about to miss our flight out of LaGuardia. LaGuardia is the Walmart of TSA: Only open one TSA lane on Holiday weekends. Later, we did find out that the TSA delay was partially due to this being a training day for the drug sniffing dogs who were smelling everyone who went through Maui on July 5th. (The dogs were really cute in their little uniforms.)

We made it through and grabbed lunch while we waited to board our first flight. I couldn’t help but snap some airport pictures because they are such a beloved moment in our travels 🤣

Even spotted Maui, the demi-god from Moana 😀

One more technically Hawaii pic, and we were off…

We left Maui at 1:30 Hawaii time, and landed at 9:44 West coast time. We watched a lovely sunset on the way and then Hello LA

Back on the mainland, we had 1 hour to grab a snack/dinner. Then we are off for our first overnight flight. Thankfully, we snagged exit row seats for a little extra leg room.