Perry, so from LAX it's North towards Beverley Hills?
Next time you're in NZ, drink wine. It's incredibly cheap and some of the varieties (sauvignon blanc, pinot noir) are as good as it gets. If you stick to red wine, you can also assert that it is taken for medicinal reasons. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
