A last visit and back to Germany - Southwest USA 2018 - 16
Friday, 2018-05-11 - A last visit and back to Germany
As my flight back home is leaving only at 5:20 pm I have plenty of time to kill. There is a smaller car museum near the airport that I will visit, but that's it.
I get up late, grab something for breakfast in the supermarket across the street and eat that in my room. The weather is like yesterday: Cloudy and just 56°F (13°C). I rearrange everything for the flight and leave around 10 am.
The Automobile Driving Museum in Los Angeles is near the airport and the car return stations. This makes it a nice destination for the last day as the impact of the traffic is predictable. The Museum is not huge, but it's packed with cars of different ages. I think they have 40-50 cars on exhibition. Not easy to take pictures as the cars are standing pretty close. So, I try my 12mm lens what on the other hand is a bit wide.
Returning the car is as easy as usual. For the first time, the station manager himself is at the car return and asks if everything was ok. The shuttle bus gets stuck in traffic just like everybody else, but I'm early anyhow.
Arriving at the check-in I realize that Lufthansa has a flight to Frankfurt that is leaving much earlier than my flight to Munich. That means that the counters are open and I can get rid of my luggage. Great! The time until boarding I spend in the lounge.
What I’ve never seen before is that you just have to pass security, no passport control. Only before boarding the plane you go through a gate where a picture is taken. That's all, they don't even check the boarding pass.
The flight and the drive back home is standard for me, except that I don't pick up the car at the airport parking but at the external parking lot. I arrive home in the afternoon and although I was able to get some sleep on the plane I postpone most of the unpacking to the next day.
