Hello from BWI! I am sitting at the gate at 4AM preparing to fly across the country and then an ocean for, in terms of distance, what will by the farthest trip I have ever taken. I will be spending 10 days in Southeast Asia.
The planning for this trip has taken some time, and was almost completely canned altogether with the 2010 snowpocalypse in Washington D.C. Since airport shuttles were suspended, I was forced to take the train in at 10PM and wait at the airport until my departure at 5AM the next morning, for a grand total of seven hours in an airport. This breaks my previous record of 5 hours spent in the most boring and ugly airport in the world, Paris-Charles De Gaulle. I get shivers just thinking about the concrete monstrosity the aesthetics loving Frenchmen plunked down in the middle of a rabbit warren in Roissy.
The flight departs at 5:20; another hour to wait. I am halfway through Game Change, the newest political fad to hit D.C. The book details the entire history of the 2008 presidential campaign, and is, as my roommate terms it, very “gossipy.” I am enjoying it thus far.
I have been awake since 7AM EST. I plan on staying awake until my flight for Los Angeles departs from Charlotte. The rationale for this is to get my body adjusted to Singapore time as quickly as possible to minimise my zombie affect when I arrive, and thus maximise the amount of stuff I can do on my trip without becoming catatonic.
It occurs to me that out of all my blog posts, this is the most stereotypical “this is what I had for breakfast” post. Since I don’t indulge in that very often, I don’t blame myself too much. And for all you airplane nerds, I will be posting a full report of my flights, including my Singapore Air leg (LAX-SIN). But since at the moment I am internet-less, my less well connected muse will have to do.
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Photo: jnemo
Glad to hear you got to Sing safe, bro.