No you didn't miss a day, we did! Yesterday morning we got to the check-in station at Hickam AFB only to learn the 5:30 AM flight had been delayed due to mechanical problems. It was scheduled to fly at 8:30 PM TENTATIVELY. We have played the space-available game enough now to know we could not rely on that time holding either and we were up against the time deadline we have set to be home by October 25. So we surfed the web for fares to Oakland and booked a flight at 9:40 PM (yes, a red-eye special) and just hung out reading and casual bird observing until it was time to turn in our rental car and sit in the Honolulu Airport. It rained off and on, too, but then that is not unusual in Hawaii.
We arranged for the same shuttle to meet us at Oakland Airport at 8:30 AM local time and we were dropped at the place where we had stored Jay and RBII. There was thankfully room for us at the Travis FAMCAMP where we are now ensconced for the night trying to re-acquaint our bodies with local time. Ann did a commissary run to re-load the refrig. Tomorrow we start our trek eastward via the southern route through Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee.
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