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Quick Aitutaki update. It's still overcast, and it gets dark by 7pm - southern hemisphere I guess. Made it easy to have an early night, which my body clock was expecting. I pandered to my introvert yesterday and had a few beers with an ipod and a book until the mozzies became too much of a pain - bliss.
The big news here is that they have TRIANGULAR COINS! That's it, I'm staying.
I woke up quite early after the early night - my alarm cockerel was strangely quiet, either he was further up the beach or he'd over-exerted himself in honour of my arrival yesterday. I've christened him Bertie, as in Bertie Rooster, in a kind of back-handed doff of the cap to Jonathan Ross.
I managed to get out for a run as well - two and a half miles, whoo! It was starting to get really warm though, and it's the first run since I left Newcastle, so I'm feeling good for it.
I'll fill in one of the blanks - San Luis Obispo (SLO) to Los Angeles Airport (LAX). This was supposed to be a quiet tootle down the coast with plenty of time for stop-offs and chillling. I was late setting off though, due to a combination of uploading photos to Facebook and general faffing. I did manage to stop off to admire the waterfall urinal (really) at the Madonna Inn, and then set off in earnest. Unfortunately, my progress was halted by a road closure because of forest fires. I assumed that there would be signed diversions - oops.
So, after I've driven east about half an hour, I realised that I was probably more likely to end up in New York than LA if I carried on. I saw a police patrol car, and stopped and got out of my car, clutching a map and my 'trusty' satnav. I explained in best Hugh Grant bumbling English accent that the road was closed but my satnav kept telling me to get on it anyway. The policeman was very courteous - especially since I'd interrupted an arrest on a young Mexican-looking chap. God knows what he'd done - we were in the middle of nowhere, in a state forest. Maybe he'd urinated against a tree or something.
Anyway, my relaxed drive to LAX became a bit more fraught - I had to backtrack and take a detour through a Danish-themed town called Solvang. The satnav than took me back north on Highway 1 - I pulled a u-turn and went back south again, I didn't want to turn the satnav off so altogether I had to put up with about an hour of ignoring it and listening to it saying 'recalculating' every two minutes in a very pissed-off voice.
Well, I'm going to sign off now and have another day kicking around and chilling - I'll see if I can book an island tour for tomorrow.
Laters, John
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