LAX Hilton: Quick Overnight

We walked out to the hotel shuttle area around 12:30 a.m. at LAX and lo and behold a Hilton van pulled up within five minutes. Lucky us!

After a short ride and an efficient check-in, we were in our room, where we caught a few hours of sleep.

After a decent continental breakfast in the 16th-floor Executive Lounge, we relaxed for awhile.

Today's flight to Changsha on Hainan doesn't depart until 1:35 p.m., so we have a lot of time, even though we sadly won't be able to use the TSA PreCheck line, given we're on a foreign carrier.

Blogging will be light to non-existent for a week, as China's Great Firewall blocks Google (this is a Google-based blog) and Facebook, and we won't bother with a VPN.

Not a bad room...

This is the city, as Joe Friday used to say - at least around LAX.