It’s funny how that carrot-on-a-stick promise of “it’s only a 2 1/2 hour flight from California to Oklahoma” turns into 11 hours after you figure in the drive to the airport, returning the rental car, time spent in the TSA security line and so on. We left our hotel in Pleasant Hill, California at 6:30am this morning, and arrived home at 5:30pm. In the past seven days we visited Disneyland, the Warner Brothers Studio, Rancho Obi-Wan, the Jelly Belly factory, the Sequoia National Forest, Computer History Museum, and Alcatraz/Pier 39, with lots of other little stops and diversions along the… (read more)