"Obama Departs for Vacation 11:11 a.m. CHICAGO –
President-elect Barack Obama, sporting a baseball cap, boarded a chartered plane here on Saturday morning and headed to his native Hawaii for a 13-day Christmas vacation.
Mr. Obama, joined by his wife and two daughters, did not wave to the cameras as he ran up the steps to a United 767 plane. Several friends from Chicago also are spending the holidays with the Obama family in Hawaii, where they have rented beachfront houses in Kailua, but they are traveling separately.
A handful of reporters, staff and Secret Service agents were aboard the nine-hour flight for Honolulu."
Mr. Obama, joined by his wife and two daughters, did not wave to the cameras as he ran up the steps to a United 767 plane. Several friends from Chicago also are spending the holidays with the Obama family in Hawaii, where they have rented beachfront houses in Kailua, but they are traveling separately.
A handful of reporters, staff and Secret Service agents were aboard the nine-hour flight for Honolulu."
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Now I have never been to Hawaii, in fact the longest flight I was ever on was one from NJ to California but that was on a DC-08 with a couple hundred "Smelly Tourists", as Senator Harry Reid (D) likes to call 'em, so our individual "Carbon Footprints" were probably a bit smaller then Obama's...
