Just thought I’d also quickly add a couple of shots from MAN last week, there’s not much point in starting a new thread for them. These were taken on my visit to meet up with Paul (PMN), taking advantage of a couple of empty legs on company aircraft.
From here we went to Maui on an Island Air Dash-8 and my battery died when I got on the plane (there was a lot to remember being a backpacker) but I did get a shot of the ‘departure lounge’ at Kona airport.
Maui is an absolutely incredible place, it has so many qualities in such a small space. The waterfalls were out of this World.
As were the natural diving boards (yes I had a go, and yes it was brilliant!).
It was then time to get back to Honolulu for one last time before flying back to LA. We flew back to Honolulu via Kalaupapa and Molokai, 3 hops on a Pacific Wings caravan for about $25. As predicted, it was one of the most entertaining flights of the entire trip, especially landing on Kalaupapa which is a 600m strip carved out of a lava flow on the edge of the island of Molokai. The flight from Kalaupapa-Molokai was then an entire 9nm long!
Molokai airport:
And then I asked the pilot if I could sit in 1C for the final leg back to HNL.
From here we jumped on our UA 767 back to LA:
Just 2 quick nights in LA so that I could say I’ve seen Hollywood, then a flight up to San Francisco on Virgin America. The cabin was pretty funky, especially with the purple mood lighting.
I was then pretty happy to have a ‘go-around’ on approach to SFO. I was all too pleased to get another approach across the Bay with the city in the background. 15 minutes later we eventually landed:
San Francisco was a fantastic city, and definitely my favourite in the US alongside New York.
After 5 days it was the moment I had dreaded, time to leave the USA. It had been an amazing 6 weeks and I really didn’t feel like I’d seen enough. Here’s just a couple taken at SFO before we boarded our flight to New Zealand, which will be coming up soon in Part 4.
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