I have to go to the states again for work and I really wasn't much looking forward to going all that way for 2 days work but in dealing with sorting flights etc. I find I can't do a direct flight (company rules) and that I will have to have a lay over somewhere, then I find out I can take leave at the layover point and they can fly me to LA which is where my friends now live (for those who remember their daughter D rode Jess and had a pony at my yard about 3 years ago). Free-bee holiday here I come