Thursday, October 29, 2009

Eurafrika Pt 2 - Across the Atlantic

So I get back to the airport and we take off across the Atlantic. It's my first time flying on a two-aisled plane. I'm sitting in a window seat beside Bruce (or was it Bill - I'm terrible with names...), a middle-aged guy from Albuquerque heading to Bonn, Germany for a electric-tools conference. I share with him the little that I know about Alburquerque, namely that the Isotopes are from there and that they recently set up a commuter train line called the RailRunner. He is astounded that I know this obscure fact. I tell him I'm a transport geek; he laughs.

For my first flight over the Atlantic, I was really hoping to actually get to see the big blue ocean, to only see the sea in all directions. I imagined being Joshua Slocum sailing around the world in search of adventure.

I didn't get to; it was dark and cloudy. My buddy Julian told me that they have plenty of in-flight movies on long flights like this one and fortunately he was not wrong. I watched three movies: Transformers 2, The Hangover and an episode of The Office. The plot for Transformers 2 was surprisingly not bad (though unsurprisingly had many holes in it); The Hangover, though ridiculous, had an interesting way of presenting a narrative; and The Office was just plain hilarious. I slept the rest of the flight.

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