Here’s a report on a recent business trip to Sherman Oaks (into LAX and out of BUR).
A heroic masked Californian is turned away from the gate at PBI for not being in a sufficiently high-priority boarding group (if there were any justice on this planet, Trump would have lost the recent election and masked passengers would enjoy top priority boarding along with military personnel):
The JetBlue Mint “studio” in their new-configuration planes. The seats are angled and that leaves a little bit of extra space in the first row. They actually put a second seat belt in the suite/studio for a guest (not during takeoff/landing) and the bed ends up being a little wider. My excuse for this luxury is that I needed to get some work done.
Departing east from PBI we flew over a 20-acre estate on Palm Beach that a Democrat judge in New York appraised, in an entirely nonpartisan manner, at $18 million. (A one-acre vacant lot nearby recently sold for $85 million.)
Bold #resistance can begin within moments of stepping off the plane in LAX via access to “Books Banned Elsewhere”:
The streetscape in front of my luxurious Courtyard hotel in Sherman Oaks included $5/gallon gasoline (currently about $3/gallon in Florida), outdoor maskers, and the unhoused:
One is greeted at the Burbank airport by a sign reminding healthy travelers to “wear a mask”:
The airport also features an exhibit on the built-in-Burbank Lockheed P-38 Lightning, which helped the U.S. achieve “peace the old-fashioned way” (as B-17 and B-29 fans like to say) in World War II:
Thanks to United Airlines for getting us to SFO on time in a somewhat newer twin-engine plane.
The boom in expert witness jobs is an interesting story. Wonder if they’re pent up cases from the lockdown years or if the industry shifted from making software to patenting it.