Space Travel
From the air, the rice patties along the north coast of Java decorate the landscape with wet, irregular trapezoids. And over the land mass below, the sky seems to boil into a froth of towering thunderheads. The whole scene is infused with grey haze. It looks hot.
A thirty-four hour air voyage isn’t nearly as bad as I expected. I slept for eight hours of the trip, and waking hours were full of distractions like bad snacks and bad movies. One forgets after a few hours that there’s thirty thousand feet of atmosphere underneath the seats, and that the world’s mightiest ocean lies below that. We had central aisle seats for the longest leg of the trip from San Francisco to Taipei, and couldn’t see the full moon as we chased it across the globe. Knew it was there all the while, though.
Inflight movie ‘Prime” seemed to take up at least 6 hours of the flight. The chemistry between Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep is…inert.
The hardest part of the trip was facing the dozens of cart porters and taxi agents at the airport. They’re aggressive, and our defenses were down. We got to a Blue Bird taxi and all the way to our hotel nonetheless.
Will have to post pics later- dial-up internet cafe won't cooperate. Stay tuned.
A thirty-four hour air voyage isn’t nearly as bad as I expected. I slept for eight hours of the trip, and waking hours were full of distractions like bad snacks and bad movies. One forgets after a few hours that there’s thirty thousand feet of atmosphere underneath the seats, and that the world’s mightiest ocean lies below that. We had central aisle seats for the longest leg of the trip from San Francisco to Taipei, and couldn’t see the full moon as we chased it across the globe. Knew it was there all the while, though.
Inflight movie ‘Prime” seemed to take up at least 6 hours of the flight. The chemistry between Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep is…inert.
The hardest part of the trip was facing the dozens of cart porters and taxi agents at the airport. They’re aggressive, and our defenses were down. We got to a Blue Bird taxi and all the way to our hotel nonetheless.
Will have to post pics later- dial-up internet cafe won't cooperate. Stay tuned.
posted by Chad at 4:13 PM
2 Comments:
I don't need pictures. Susan and I have made Chad and Trish finger puppets and we act out little imaginary scenes of you guys doing interesting things and meeting interesting people.
Not having TV makes me so much more creative (as I scan the internet for bootleg copies of the Hey Vern, It's Ernest! show)
j
Can we be animals like in the Richard Scary books? Trish can be a really skinny cat and I'll be the worm. Then you can make cut-out busses and bajaj and motorcycles and play "Chad and Trish Cross The Road".
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