April 4 – Drive to LA

We were due to leave for LA a few days earlier so that we would have the weekend to visit with Josh and Vanessa and to play with little Atlas.  Unfortunately, just before we were to leave we got a text that Atlas got pink eye at daycare so we decided not to go.  So, we are driving over this afternoon.  Our flight leaves just after 1:00am tomorrow so we are saving on hotel rooms.

We had heavy winds most of the way to LA so traffic was slow.  In places there was a sand storm blowing across the freeway.  

And we had snow.  Hard to see but there was snow.

We did stop by Josh and Vanessa’s briefly to say hi and drop off our gifts for them from Costa Rica.  We visited in the garage, used the bathroom, visited a bit more in their lower living room…never getting too close.  Atlas was already in bed so we didn’t get to see him. 

Then we turned in the rental car and headed to the airport where we waited in the lounge for a couple of hours. 

Boarding was easy and we have nice, fully laydown seats.  These seats are some of the most comfortable we’ve had on any of these planes.  The airline is COPA.  We are flying to Panama City for a 6 hour layover before heading on to Rio.  Neither of us slept well but at least we were comfortable. 

View from the plane as we left Panama City.

The flight to Rio was even longer than the first…this one is over 7 hours.  Unfortunately, the seats don’t fully recline…making it harder to sleep.  But we both dozed a bit.