Day 2, April 26 - fly to Fort Lauderdale

Up early after a night of no sleep--jet-lag! After arriving yesterday and feeling tired I had a meal and at about 7pm local time, went to bed.  What silly thing to do. Laying awake I seemed to remember, what I know now, as sensible advice. That is,after a long flight you get over jet-lag quicker if you start living according to the local time. This meant I should have gone to bed about 10.30pm. Doing some calculations in my head--I didn't have much else to do.  I soon realized that by New Zealand time I went to bed about three in the afternoon. Anyway, at about six, I  got up showered and had breakfast. Felt awful. Packed, and headed out to the airport for my flight to Fort Lauderdale.

At the airport sat about trying to stay awake--reading was out of the question. Saw lots of cell phones walking around and more than once thought someone was talking to me, but alas no they were talking to themselves or some little thing stuck in the ear.  The airport has many 'recharging stations'. Small round tables with a pole poking up with power outlets and topped with a large blue Recharging Station sign. At first I thought this was to recharge cell phones and laptop batteries, but I don't think so. At many of these station I say people plugged in. Standing there with small box in their ear and a lead going away to a power plug. Another observation, evidently this recharging makes people talk to themselves.

At last I boarded an Airbus 321 and headed off to Phoenix. The airplane was the best I have flown in, comfortable leather seats, plenty of legroom, and pleasantly quite although I wasn't wearing my hearing aids. At Phoenix had an hour before the collecting flight, so off to Burger King for a quick hamburger.  Yes I selected one with plenty of green stuff and couple slices of tomato.  By the time I finished  boarding had started for my Airbus 320 to Fort Lauderdale.  This was an older and well used airplane.  However seated just behind Business Class and having a divider in front instead of a seat there was plenty of room to stretch out. With the time difference I arrived at Hollywood International Airport, Fort Lauderdale about 10.30 pm. Pleasant airport and at that time of night not many people about.  Grabbed a taxi and headed of to my hotel the Bahai Mar.  Booked in and by midnight was in bed and asleep.