Here I am
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personal, travel
Well, here I am in Canada. The trip was, as expected, exhausting, and hard on my legs.The flight out of Christchurch was on one of the old, unrefurbished 747s, which was rather annoying - the in-flight entertainment systems on the refurbished ones are really good at banishing boredom. Instead, mixed with mostly failed attempts to get some sleep, I read Jennifer Government cover-to-cover (good book), with enough time left over to watch the few remaining episodes of QI that I hadn't seen yet.
Then I transferred through LAX, where I had to pick up all my baggage to check it in at the transferring baggage desk. Thankfully, a helpful TSA(!) person told me I should take it all upstairs and get it checked in there, because the bike was too large and would have to go up there anyway. After a wait of about 1/2 an hour to get into the lift, my bag, box and bike were accepted almost immediately.
The service from Air Canada wasn't nearly as bad as I'd been led to expect - the flight attendants were friendly to a fault, and I have no complaints. Maybe it was an exception.
On arriving at Vancouver, there was a long delay before the bags were emitted from the luggage turnstile. My bike box had developed, since LAX, a rather worrying hole in it, with the front wheel hub poking through. On inspection, the front wheel is significantly out of true. :/
A long day, anyway. I'm glad I'm not travelling anymore. Previous Post Next Post