We're in Los Angeles now, 9:00 am Thursday 24th July.
Flew in last night from Heathrow via Glasgow, fourteen hours in planes and airports.
And not allowed a ciggy!
Departing for LAX around 1:00 pm; not enough time to contact anyone.
From there we leave for Auckland (NZ) International, and from there to New Plymouth.
About another twelve hours without a smoke.

So if you locals look up and see an Air New Zealand plane flying over about 3:00 pm, give it a wave . . . it could be us!