Field Report: Arriving in Nicaragua!

[emo_snal]

Wednesday, August 23rd, Melbourne, Australia - "Where are you from?" I ask the taxi driver in Melbourne, since he's mentioned his wife immigrating

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[gaeln]

So, from start to finish, how long? However long, I can't even fathom traveling for so long and still being able to function at all at the end.

My hero!! Another life saved :)

Sorry you're having problems with GoT. Happily, I'm not so much :)

My favorite phrase re: Trump is...this is precedent setting!!!

[emo_snal]

The flights + layovers I think was 73 hours from liftoff to landing. Of course from starting my journey to finally being able to relax in a hotel room again was probably around 77-78 hours. Man I hope I never have to do that again.

The next episode I think comes on sometime this evening (usually it premiers sometime monday morning Australia time, so this is novel for it to be on Sunday night), I'm gonna see if I can download it tonight, I've never tried so soon after it airs.

But seriously was Episode 6 kind of lacking in well written plot?

[gaeln]

I think of 6 as a set-up for 7 where almost too many threads tried, generally reasonable well, to come together. Although, so many great people were together in the Dragonpit and I wanted to see more interaction among them. Oops! I am assuming that you've seen it. Maybe I shouldn't :)

73 to 78 hours is, on the other hand, entirely unreasonable.

[emo_snal]

I hadn't seen it when I read this comment, fortunately I (A) assumed you were likely fucking with me; (B) had no idea what the dragonpit was or entailed. In fact when I did watch it I missed the part where they said "dragonpit" (though caught that they had called it a something which I hadn't caught) so now your comment fills in the blank

[a_phoenixdragon]

Yeah, I've heard not-so-good things about our TSA. :(

Need to see The Accountant, then, lol!

*HUGS*

[emo_snal]

Yeah I quite liked the movie. And "Free Firing" (or "Free Fire?") from an earlier flight I also liked a lot.

[mexpatriot]

Those TSA fuckers! I always ask for the pat-down. I won't go through those new x-ray scanners. Once, when they did the pat-down, I saw on the screen something like "explosives residue!" I've never been around explosives in my life! What idiocy! I was detained for a while. Why? What is all this

[emo_snal]

Though I must say about TSA, while they got more rigorous and invasive after 9/11 they did also get more professional. Pre 9/11 they were like a bunch of high school dropouts on a power kick, post 9/11 they were.. still assholes but had enough self respect and professionalism that it didn't quite seem like they needed to go out of their way to lord their self-importance over people any more

[mexpatriot]

I don't remember the TSA existing before 9-11. It seemed that air travel became unbearable after that.

Somoto Canyon looks nice!

[emo_snal]

It wasn't called TSA but they did have a bunch of high school dropouts in ill fitting uniforms half-assedly manning the x-ray machines d:

[kk1raven]

That sounds like a horrible journey. The longest set of flights I've made was Hobart to Sydney to Los Angeles then back to the east coast of the US and that was only 30-odd hours.

[millysdaughter]

"Africa" he says as if that should be a satisfactory answer
"Where in Africa?" I ask
"East Africa" he says as if he doesn't know why I'm bothering to inquire further
"Where in East Africa?"
"Ethiopia" he says like it's an "I told you so" that it wouldn't mean anything to me
"Where in Ethiopia?"
"Addis Ababa" he says as if this is starting to get a little weird.
"How do you like the new light rail in Addis?"

That sounds similar to my exchange with the young kid in the Albuquerque airport - he was heading to Williston, but it felt like it took the full 20 questions for him to admit that. When I joked about him Rockin' the bakken he realized I really did know where it was.