Landed in Tokyo
When I got to Changi this morning, the ticket agent informed me that the only seat available was middle since the plane was full. Amazing how the plane was “full” as I was the second person at the check-in counter, seat assignments were limited to the check-in counter for Economy, and she obviously didn’t want to do her job and give me a better seat other than the seat the ticketing system assigned. After clearing immigration and security I headed to the gate, it wasn’t open yet. When the gate finally opened at 6am, I cleared gate security and met with the ticket agent. He got me an aisle on an exit-row. Even if you tried to beat that, you couldn’t, as that aisle has absolutely nothing in front of it!
I landed in Tokyo approximately 40 minutes ago. The flight was a little bumpy but with a seventy mile-per-hour tail wind, we arrived earlier than expected. I sat next to a man who epitomized “self-contained individual” even if the only word he said to me the whole flight was “Thanks!” Even though I’m not a talker on an airplane, you’d think the person would say more than one word. Maybe I’m too European looking, too tall, or maybe he had a problem sitting in the airplane next to me, but at least say more than one word!
My plane for Los Angeles departs Tokyo in a little over an hour. I hope the plane isn’t that full (although, for United, I hope it is) so I can stretch out even more. I hope the wind gods give the aircraft an excellent tail wind to get the plane to Los Angeles earlier than 11am. My connection from Los Angeles to Denver is at 12:41pm and with the lack of speed of US Customs and Immigration, I may miss that connection. I’m looking forward to seeing Jessica, Tyler, Kylea, Ayden, and Rylin, and I hope they’re looking forward to seeing me too. It’s been a hard month of travel on Jessica, the children, and I; they mean the world to me!