I left Portland today after another day at the beach with Taiga and Becky.  I’m waiting  to board the flight to Sydney at LAX right now.

Observations about LAX:

-There are a lot of people here

-Most of them probably spent more than 5 minutes in front of the mirror at least once today

-Pretty poor food here in terminal 5

-Lots of shorts, socks and sandals strolling by

-Best carry on bag: a green fuzzy Oscar the Grouch backpack worn by a man I approximated to be 30 years young.  He seemed to be surprisingly content despite his grumpy backpack.