My family just got back from our annual vacation in Los Angeles where I have both family and friends...and every other year (including 2009) a conference at UCLA.
This year traveling was marginally better because we flew into Burbank airport, which is considerably better than LAX. And flying Jet Blue meant there were no stopovers. In general I have not found Jet Blue's prices competitive, but this year they were, so we tried them out.
This time we rented a Nissan Altima hybrid. It got us about 32 mpg in the city...not as good as we once got in a Prius, but a tad better than we once got in a Honda Civic hybrid. My wife liked to drive both the Prius and the Altima...but not so much the Civic in comparison.
As usual, one of the best things for me was hanging out at UCLA, a place I have hung out around since I was a young boy when my mother had an office in Bunche Hall (which we always called "The Waffle"). Bunche Hall and the sculpture garden are part of my childhood memories. South campus and the medical center are part of my grad school memories. And the whole campus is, to me, kind of the Platonic form of a university campus. But I wrote about that last time we had a conference at UCLA.
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