I'm off! - 2016 Special Edition (to Vegas!)

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Hoddle Is A God said:
Okay. Set off from Vegas airport, on the strip, at around 3pm on Wednesday and landed at Gatwick at around 9:30am on Thursday morning.

It was pretty eventful on the way back home, as my wife fell asleep at the wheel of her car and we ran under a lorry on the M3. The car is a write-off, and we could have been killed, but escaped with only a few minor cuts and bruises. Didn't get back home until around 9pm, this evening. We're all pretty shook up, obviously.

Anyway, apart from that, I am glad to be home. Vegas was a hoot, and I'd readily go back.

By the way, I got confused between miles and kilometres. Vegas is around 8400 km from Gatwick, which equates to around 5200 miles. Glad to see that it gave the segments something to mutually **** over.

Also, I don't blame the salivating segments getting excited about the proximity of the helipads to several of the Vegas strip hotels, as they have clearly never been to Vegas, so won't have a clue.

By the way, I will be changing my avatar to the Tony Adams one shortly and serving a full calendar month with it, as I had agreed, just as soon as I can work out how to protect my current avatar, as I seem to have misplaced the original photo.
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I'll give you the benefit of doubt here HIAG and hope your family are alright <ok>

I did a similar journey up a couple of weeks ago when I got back at midnight. Soon as I went through customs went straight to Costa, had an espresso there and then and a Latte to go. Still needed the Mrs to keep punching me to check I was awake... she needs any excuse though tbf.
 
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Treble said:
I'll give you the benefit of doubt here HIAG and hope your family are alright <ok>

I did a similar journey up a couple of weeks ago when I got back at midnight. Soon as I went through customs went straight to Costa, had an espresso there and then and a Latte to go. Still needed the Mrs to keep punching me to check I was awake... she needs any excuse though tbf.
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The red eye back from the States is a killer tbf. I once got in my car at Heathrow and felt myself going on the M1 and pulled off at Watford Gap. I thought I'll have 20 minutes kip and plough on. I woke up 4 hours later!
 
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The red eye back from the States is a killer tbf. I once got in my car at Heathrow and felt myself going on the M1 and pulled off at Watford Gap. I thought I'll have 20 minutes kip and plough on. I woke up 4 hours later!
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<laugh>

I've not been tbh but I do have a habit of getting late night flights back. Probably because it's the cheaper flights and bcos it means I can get to departures abroad in the afternoon with the family on a go slow.

What I don't get is why I can't doze off for more than 30mins on the flight!!
 
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