Albuquerque.

The biggest city with nothing entertaining to do in America, an entire city built on Illegal workers. What a miserable time I had there. Taken from a relatively comfortable lifestyle, living on my own in a spacious pre-furnished apartment and thrown into a single shared bathroom billet for 6 months. Stack that on top of constantly needing to study, a new super stressful airframe and knowing no one, you have my time in Albuquerque.

I’m glad I went, for sure… I would have never met certain people and traveled to certain places. But gosh darn it, it was bad.

The other much better story,

Chino Hills, what a great place… The landscape is eh-ish, being mostly scrub and brown but it’s made up for with the views. Anyways, the airport in Ontario, CA is regional and is sufficiently small- while not being small. It’s California small, if that makes any sense. Does to me, whatever. So I arrived, and wandered a short walk down to the baggage claim, waited for the bag and got my flurry of texts from Andrea attempting to figure out where I am. We eventually decided that just calling for 10 seconds was faster than texting.

I hate the phone. Humans need to just be telepaths.

Anyways, she apparently ended up orbiting 3-4 times before finally finding me. Maybe it didn’t help that I forgot what kind of car she drove. (fail) So she arrived, I finally noticed and was wowed, the woman is gorgeous, it’s stupid… hanging out with a scrub like me. (hehe) Anyways, we shortly piled into the car and hauled off to In-N-Out Burger which had about a quarter million people flooding through, I guess that is normal. The burger was pretty darn good, thanks again to Andrea for coaching me on proper ordering techniques… even though she ordered for me. The fries were meh, maybe they need to be fresh and these weren’t I don’t know.

We drove out and ended up at Casa Bean’, which is amazing by the way. Got the short tour, and only confirmed the amazing verdict. I met the siblings too, all of which are super cool. Heavyweights; a child’s movie-ish. I made my top 10 being so completely fun and absurd. I loved it. The hype was for once totally worth it. Thank goodness… after was Kung Fu, then sleep after wandering the dark parts of town looking for a hotel that Google said was there, and was not.

The next day started early with lunch and a day of movies. All so much fun.

Sunday started much the same with food- which was again good, we traveled to the beach and sat out mocking a poor bird being attacked by the waves and being contemplative. I really truly enjoyed myself out there. THEN! Raiding. Raiding is always meh, so we attacked the tedium by switching characters for the pulls. Even that was a little tedious, it mostly got us killed. Star Wars and spaghetti/salad followed.

I sat up for the rest of the night watching South Park because my flight left VERY early in the morning and would have been worse off sleeping.

I we traveled shortly back to the airport laughing to Hendrie all of the way. Exchanged a hug filled goodbye; I decided to snatch a kiss too. ß-whore.

Overall, the whole thing was a great adventure and I haven’t had that much fun in a long time, even if it was just stuffing myself with food and watching movies. Company can make or break a trip and the company was amazing.

I look forward to doing it again sometime.

=Sean