We are in Honolulu now for a 4-hour wait for our flight to Fiji. Thought you would be interested in seeing what you have avoided by taking our trip only vicariously. This is our trip from San Francisco to Nadi:
Hour 0:
Wake up in San Francisco 4:15 am, Monday morning.
Hour 2:
Flight to LAX 6:53 am
Hour 4:
Arrive LAX 8:15 am (388 air miles)
Hour 5:
Flight to HNL 9:45 am
Hour 11
Arrive HNL 1:45 pm (2,550 miles)
Hour 16:
Flight to NAN 6:55 pm
Hour 23:
Arrive NAN 00:40 +2 (don’t forget the International Date Line), that’s Wednesday morning, folks! But we are in Fiji now!!! (3,170 miles)
By the way, Washington to San Francisco was 2,410 miles. By the time we get to Nadi, Fiji, we will have flown 8518 miles.
Hour 24
Arrive hotel and go to bed ? ≈4:15 am San Francisco time.
I’m exhausted from reading one day of your itinerary. But I’m going to bookmark this website and read about your trip so that I (we) can live vicariously. We’ll need another 3 years to catch up to your 40th and I’d need about three bottles of Xanax in order to tolerate this much flying. Have a wonderful trip! Carol & Jack