2020 Winter Vacation Part 1

[torakiyoshi]

01/17
[January 17, Harbin to Jakarta (click to open)]Today started out painfully early as I had to get up at 3:45 to get out of the house in time. Even living as close to the third ring road as I do, it's still about an hour to the airport. It didn't help that I had decided, if I packed in time, that I would go out to trivia at the expat hangout for once. I wanted to wax artsy-fartsy with

Comments

January 17

[blacktigr]

Your first day of travel seems frantic, but in the end you got where you were trying to go, so I guess all's well that ends well?

Re: January 17

[torakiyoshi]

Yes, indeed. International travel is always a bit harrowing. I generally hate flying, too, because of all the hoops you have to jump through, all while being herded around like a bunch of livestock. But when I get to see awesome places, it's worth it.

[thewayne]

Sorry for the slow reply, tab got buried and finally found it and read it while cleaning up bookmarks. Sounds like a heck of a trip!

Yeah, I've heard about the tradition of throwing coins into jet engines. Not very sensible, glad they're taking precautions to try to prevent it.

[torakiyoshi]

It's absolutely insane. Some of the things that otherwise perfectly reasonable Chinese people will do to satisfy a superstition just blow me away.

[thewayne]

At least they don't throw the coins in when the engine is spinning at full speed....

[torakiyoshi]

Given how close we are on the stairwell to the engine, the passengers would be going through the engine at the same time.