Clothes to go - I really tried to eliminate!!
So from 10am Tuesday morning until what would have been the equivalent of 8am Wednesday morning, I was in transit. Moving through Toronto airport, then Chcago’s O’Hare, through to LAX and finally landing in Nadi, Fiji (at 5:15 am Fiji time on the 24th which was really 8:15 am Wednesday back in B.C. I have to say that it was Air Pacific in a big honkin’ 747 (man those planes are huge) that I had the best flight and service sespite being 11 hours long.
- From Bed to Bag – it fits.
But a fun journey nontheless. On my Chicago – LAX leg, I met a very nice guy named Kent. I told him about my travels. In the middle of the flight, he hands me an article ripped out of a magazine entitled “Color me Canadian”. He underlined a couple of segments of the article for me:
Maybe everytime you went to another country, it changed you. You couldn’t ever return home exactly the person you were before you saw those things. You were the same as you used to be, only different>
Kent signed the article page for me saying, “Enjoy everyday as much as you possibly can!” What a nice encounter, what a nice Chicagoan.
Fiji beach greets me after a long journey ... life is good,.
Such a contrast to my friendly albeit hard to believe Russian travelling companion sitting beside me. She apparently buys and sells artwork and luxury items, owns several pieces of real estate in central Moscow, and is also a realtor in Beverly Hills. The incongruency with it all was that she was traveling economy. She said she can’t stay in anything less than 5 star hotels, yet she was traveling along with the rest of us plebes in economy. Well she didn’t add up to me, but I will never know how authentic she is.
That is the challenge in life. You have to rely on your gut as to whether people are authentic or not because often their words and stories are a smoke screen to a darker self.
For now, Bula everyone, I am in Fiji and it is stinkin’ hot.
Be one with the heat and what a nice way to start your trip. I love when people surprise me!
We cant wait to here about the kite lessons!
Sadly my original intent to get some start up lessons in Christchurch New Zealand have been thwarted due to the earthquake (good reason). So it will have to wait until Australia now. Some guy was kite surfing on the beach near the hostel but was only using a surf board. Great wind in Fiji – something for you guys to think about.
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These are great stories. I never talk to people on planes but I enjoy hearing the stories about these encounters, the idea of talking to strangers when you are trapped and crammed in a winged sardine can, is terrifying. Lol
Hey – is this you my nephew Paul? Ya gotta talk to people on planes from time to time, they often have the most interesting stories. Of course it can often be a drag when someone talks your ear off and you are not in the mood.