"A year to go around the world! A whole twelve months of scenes and curious happenings in far-off foreign lands! You have thought of doing this, almost promised yourself that when you got old enough, and rich enough, and could 'spare the time,' you too would go around the world. Most of us get old enough; some of us get rich enough; but the time! the time!--to spare the time, to cut loose from goods and lands, from stocks and dreary desks, quit clients, patients, readers, home and friends--ay, and our enemies whom we so dearly love! Full many a promise must be broken and few the voyagers round the world."
- D. N. Richardson, A Girdle Round the Earth (1888)
AIR PACIFIC FLIGHT 811
Well, today's the day: After one last frantic morning of moving out, throwing stuff away, packing, and dropping off my car, Chris and I actually made it to the airport on time. Glory!
On our first leg, from Atlanta to Denver, we had the good luck to sit next to a woman who had just returned from six weeks in Fiji. She gave us some great advice on where to stay and what to do, as well as generally praising us for our decision to travel for a year. That was very cool.
After a really short layover in Denver, we continued on to Los Angeles, where my brother Mike met us at LAX. He then treated us to dinner at Encounter, which is a restaurant in the old LAX control tower. Very retro-futuristic, complete with modular furniture, black lights, lava lamps, and space-age bachelor pad muzak in the elevator. The food was really good, too. Thanks bro! And sorry we were so rushed, but after dinner we barely made it through security to get to our gate in time for our flight to Fiji. I have to confess that we totally cut in front of about 200 people in line in order to do so. But what's up with the airport being sardine-packed at 10 pm on a Sunday, anyway?
The flight to Nadi was about 11 hours, but really not so bad, considering we were so knackered we slept most of the way. Somehow I also managed to watch all of the movie Corpse Bride, although it took the entire flight to do so: I watched the middle, fell asleep, watched the beginning when it played again, fell asleep, then watched the end when it played a third time. I kind of had to figure out the chronology just like when I saw Memento. I'm pretty sure it was a decent flick, though. :-)
NP: Marillion, "Map of the World"
- D. N. Richardson, A Girdle Round the Earth (1888)
AIR PACIFIC FLIGHT 811
Well, today's the day: After one last frantic morning of moving out, throwing stuff away, packing, and dropping off my car, Chris and I actually made it to the airport on time. Glory!
On our first leg, from Atlanta to Denver, we had the good luck to sit next to a woman who had just returned from six weeks in Fiji. She gave us some great advice on where to stay and what to do, as well as generally praising us for our decision to travel for a year. That was very cool.
After a really short layover in Denver, we continued on to Los Angeles, where my brother Mike met us at LAX. He then treated us to dinner at Encounter, which is a restaurant in the old LAX control tower. Very retro-futuristic, complete with modular furniture, black lights, lava lamps, and space-age bachelor pad muzak in the elevator. The food was really good, too. Thanks bro! And sorry we were so rushed, but after dinner we barely made it through security to get to our gate in time for our flight to Fiji. I have to confess that we totally cut in front of about 200 people in line in order to do so. But what's up with the airport being sardine-packed at 10 pm on a Sunday, anyway?
The flight to Nadi was about 11 hours, but really not so bad, considering we were so knackered we slept most of the way. Somehow I also managed to watch all of the movie Corpse Bride, although it took the entire flight to do so: I watched the middle, fell asleep, watched the beginning when it played again, fell asleep, then watched the end when it played a third time. I kind of had to figure out the chronology just like when I saw Memento. I'm pretty sure it was a decent flick, though. :-)
NP: Marillion, "Map of the World"
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