Following the Finchers

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Itinerary

Many people are wondering our schedule for being gone. It's sort of complicated because of the time zone differences, but here goes:

Saturday, May 21 -
7:30 am - Drive to St. Louis Airport.
11:59 am - Depart for Los Angeles American Airlines Flight 421
2:02 pm (4:02 pm in Missouri) - Arrive in Los Angeles and pick up rental car
Drive to Carlsbad, California for Saturday evening at Fairfield Inn (http://tinyurl.com/9d9pg)

Sunday, May 22
Spend the day at Legoland, California (http://www.legolandca.com)
See it from satellite: http://tinyurl.com/8f9nh
6:00 pm (8:00 pm in Missouri) - Leave Carlsbad
10:00 pm (midnight Monday in Missouri) - Arrive at Los Angeles International Airport

Monday, May 23
1:00 am (3:00 am in Missouri) - Depart for Taiwan on American Airlines Flight 7967 (EVA Airlines)

Most of this day is lost to the International Dateline. We are in the air 14 hours but arrive in Taiwan 29 hours later on the calendar.
(I don't want to explain how it works, but you can read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/7uyu4)

Tuesday, May 24
5:45 am (4:45 pm 5/23 in Missouri) - Arrive in Taipei (TPE) terminal 2.

Spend 7 days in Taiwan

Monday, May 30 (the longest anniversary of our 13 year marriage, 39 hours)
6:40 pm (5:40 am 5/30 in Missouri) - Depart Taipei on AA flight 7956 (EVA) for Los Angeles
3:20 pm (5:20 pm 5/30 in Missouri) - Arrive in Los Angeles (LAX) for a short layover
5:35 pm (7:35 pm 5/30 in Missouri) - Depart for St. Louis on AA flight 2246
11:08 pm - Arrive in St. Louis at Terminal M, Drive back to Moberly

Tuesday, May 31
1:30 am - Arrive back in Moberly, either tired or wound up (we'll see)

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