April 16th, 2023

My flight does not start to board until 5:35 pm so I have plenty of time to kill.  My Air France flight included the use of their lounge, well actually it was the Quantas lounge as Air France farms this service out at LAX.  I took the shuttle from my hotel, LAX was jammed with cars trying to drop off passengers, I ended getting out of the van and walking the last 300’ to the door for the international terminal.

I checked in with Air France about 4 hours early. I was taken to the lounge and spent a few hours having a meal, reading and writing for my blog.

In full disclosure, I ate 2 of the flans.

Eventually the time came to board the airplane.  I had splurged on La Premier for my flights.  Much of my time on the Camino will be very low budget, so I justified myself spending extra on my flight.  It was non-stop service, from champagne to start, multiple course meal service, French wines and espresso.

I decided that after 6:20 am Paris time, I would not sleep to force myself on the new time zone. I drank multiple espressos while my fellow passengers slept during the flight. The flights attendants stopped by to check in as I was not sleeping, but had instead drank about 6 espressos. They may have thought it odd that I did not take advantage of the time to sleep, but I knew we would arrive in Paris in the afternoon. Eventually it was time for breakfast.