How to get LocalPlayer position in Photon Bootcamp Demo?

I finally figured it out so I'll post my own answer. Perhaps someone else has a more elegant way to solve this.

First in usePhoton.cs I implemented this function:

 public PlayerLocal getLocalPlayer()
 {
     if (this.GameInstance == null || this.GameInstance.State != ClientState.Joined)
     {
         return null;
     }
     return GameInstance.PlayerLocal;
 }

Then in my new code to get the position:

 usePhoton photon = GameObject.Find("_GameManager/UsePhoton").GetComponent<usePhoton>();
 PlayerLocal localPlayer = photon ? photon.getLocalPlayer() : null;
 if( localPlayer )
 {
     Vector3 localPos = localPlayer.transform.position;
 }

This is just the simplest code -- I had to poll until I found the local player as it takes several frames for it to initialize. Once set up, I cached the fact that I created my stuff. But I still need the player's position to stream terrain as I move around. It does the trick but feels sloppy, but at least I'm okay for now.