Long short trip from Boulder to San Pedro. Hotel is about 5 minutes from cruise port and someone has already ordered an 10:30 am shuttle for Silver Shadow tomorrow morning. Must be another one of those uppity 250+ day people. I'll look in the bar later and see if I can spot them.
Checked in about 1/2 hour ago. Long but nominal (for United Airlines) trip since I left the house at 9:00 am and got to the hotel here about 5:30 pm (6:30 MDT): 2 minute for security, 2 hours at Red Carpet, plane sat for an hour while they changed the starter motor on the APU (honest), short wait for exactly 46.5 lb. bag (hooray when it arrived down the shoot), 15 minute wait for Supershuttle which circled airport twice--and LAX is a big airport--but had a nice group to talk with (including a 60 yr old lady who is on the board of of the Catholic Fellowship for Gay and Lesbians) on her way to a week meeting at the Queen Mary, 45 minutes in traffic to San Pedro, and then encountered a line of about 100 people checking in at the hotel here. I went to the front desk and said, "I don't want to wait an hour. Can I just check in now rather than wait in the long line?" The clerk said, "Sure", and I did. The group was some church group that had just arrived, and not being one of them was a real plus. I looked back as I got the key and found a dozen people who weren't in the group who saw what I did and left the big line and followed me. No one told them they didn't have to wait. The three clerks not checking in the group were just standing there. (The church group were all very athletic young black guys. The others were neither.) LA is a big annonymous place. No one helped at the hotel. But asking is not stealing came through again.
Took picture out the window of beautiful LA Habor small boat basin. Of course, the beautiful small boat merina is surrounded by the huge LA/Long Beach container port. You can see the gigantic cranes in the background. Kind of creepy view at a distance, especially at night. My wonderful camera seems to dislike recently charged batteries. Possible problem with batteries, chargers, or most likely camera. Oh poop. Room is a "view" room. I asked if a non-view room was cheaper. The always helpful clerk said, "Yes, but we don't have any of those." $9.95 for Internet in the room but free on the computers in the lobby. Go figure. Maybe wifi is free here too. About to find somewhere to eat. Last defrosted birthday bownie and three Red Carpet Sun Chips aren't enough.
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