Landing
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Nearly home. The plane is slowly descending towards Chiba. Wi-fi in the cabin makes things handy. Just have to try to stay up for the rest of the day here and get into the local groove, time-wise. It worked on the way over.
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Posted to General Rants • 2005.05.22 (Sun) • 13:13
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Posted by UltraBob 2005.05.22, 14:52
Welcome back!
Posted by Dan 2005.05.22, 20:44
Yup, sounds like you had a great time.
Posted by Richard 2005.05.22, 21:05
Can you tell us more about the wifi in the cabin? What airline? Cost? Etc. Nice picture, by the way and I’ve enjoyed your travel shots very much.
Posted by John 2005.05.23, 12:40
I’ve always found that the timezone shift going east was a lot easier to handle than going west. No idea if there’s science behind that, but arriving in China I’ve always been just dead but returning to the US hasn’t been nearly as bad.
Posted by Kristen 2005.05.23, 13:47
“RESCUE: break in here” is false security. As if anyone would see those words through the charred rubble of the fuselage…
Glad you made it back without needing use of that escape hatch.
Posted by jh 2005.05.23, 14:40
Thanks for the welcome back. I’m somewhat happy to be back in Tokyo, although I must say, I ♥ NY.
Richard, the airline was All Nippon Airways. The wi-fi cost $30 for the entire flight, although you could pay per-minute also (don’t recall the costs for that, but it made more sense to just spend the 30). I had the very good fortune to fly in business class where there were ethernet ports tucked away down below the armrests for those requiring them.
John, so far so good on beating jetlag. Getting into the local rhythm immediately seems to do the trick (it’s simply as if you’d stayed up very late the night before — not entirely pleasant but not debilitating either).
Kristen, that photo was taken at the Air and Space Museum in Washington and shows the end of the Breitling Orbiter 3 hot air balloon capsule in which Betrand Piccard and Brian Jones circumnavigated the globe in 1999. Now that would be a trip to take … as long as you had wi-fi in the cabin. ;-)
Posted by Ando 2005.05.23, 16:22
Welcome back
Posted by Jeff 2005.05.24, 02:03
We’ll WELCOME you BACK to DC any time, JH.
JG
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