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2 May 2007
Flying to Los Angeles via Chicago We filled yesterday with more shopping; it was our second day of shopping. We also filled our luggage! Things in the USA are cheap if one shops wisely. Today, we fly from Fort Lauderdale back to Auckland via Chicago and Los Angeles. We left our hotel at 0800 and […]
22 April 2007
A trip that I didn’t want We’re flying to Los Angeles for a short trip to Florida. It’s not a trip that I really wanted or needed. I had only just returned from a two-month trip to Yemen only a week ago. It seemed ridiculous to fly out so soon heading in the opposite direction. […]
16 April 2007
After a same-plane transit in Sydney, I arrived back in Auckland in the afternoon. It was the end of another great adventure comprising of Socotra, mainland Yemen, and Morocco. It wasn’t all fun, fun, fun but also a journey of learning. I continued and built on my Arabic language skills and also learned Thai massage.
8 April 2007
Above: Bangkok skyline from my room. I arrived into Dubai at 0110 for a connecting flight at 0315 to Bangkok. Surprisingly, that was enough time for me to go to the airport first class lounge near Costa Coffee for a shower, internet and snacks. The flight to Bangkok took less than the scheduled time of […]
22 February 2007
Flying to Sana’a My Emirates flight from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai departed at 0030. It was the perfect flight on the Airbus A330 with four seats to myself. I guess it is because there was another flight on a Boeing 777-300 a couple hours later. After a snack of an open sandwich after take-off, I […]
21 February 2007
My brother Ben took me from my apartment to Kuching airport around 1730. I have a flight to Kuala Lumpur and onwards to Dubai and Sana’a in Yemen. It will be my second time in Yemen, a country that I enjoyed very much less than a year ago. The Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuching to […]
11 February 2007
After a short but delicious flight from Johor Bahru, I landed in my hometown of Kuching. I have ten days with family in Kuching, including the Chinese New Year period. It’s always nice to be with family during the festive period. And it gets better as many friends working in other cities return to Kuching […]
11 February 2007
A wrap and fruit was offered prior to landing in Singapore at 0130. Obviously the crew knew that very few people were disembarking in Singapore. They came round with immigration cards only during final descent, handing them only to people who put their hands out. It didn’t give passengers much time to complete the cards. […]
10 February 2007
Today I fly to Singapore on Emirates. There was a little hiccup on the 1800 departure of the first leg to Brisbane. There had been a horrendous rainstorm on my way to the airport and the weather was very unsettled. The wind changed direction as our aircraft was making its way to the runway. We […]
21 November 2006
It was an early start for my 0850 Singapore Airlines flight to Auckland. The queue at check-in was long but I lucked out scoring a seat seat in a group of two rather than three, making it a tad more private. I still had to share it though with an IT guy who made good […]