Goodbye London ~ Hello Bangkok
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Why am I smiling? This is the moment I have dreaded!
I will admit it. There are two days of this entire trip
that I have been dreading since I agreed to take it. One of them technically
begins this evening; the other begins two weeks from today. They are, not to
put too fine a point on it the days I will be flying to and from Australia.
At six-foot-four, sitting in a coach seat (even an economy
plus coach seat) is not a prospect that I relish. Make it a twenty-three hour
flight and I look forward to it with more than a little trepidation.
I've pretty-much kept my mind off it, and avoided the
concern by throwing myself into the work of getting ready for the trip;
completing the knowledge transfer, putting the rest of my specifications to
bed, and generally getting working on clearing my slate so that I can
concentrate on getting this trip put together for my clients.
But actually arriving at Heathrow, I was finally unable to
avoid the thought of 23-hours in coach any longer. So imagine my pleasant
surprise: I had been able to wrangle myself an aisle seat on the bulkhead and
so, when my boarding pass was a different row number than the one I had
selected I was momentarily alarmed.
"You've been upgraded to Business Class." the
ticket agent cheerily informed me when I asked about the row change.
"Cool! Thanks!"
It is definitely a more comfortable seat, and for someone
less than six-feet tall, it is possibly a nice bed. When I pout the chair into
"Bed" configuration a little while ago, my feet hit the shell of the
seat in front of me and my neck bent forward to accommodate for the difference
between my length and the bed's. Although I am getting no sleep on the flight
from London to Bangkok, I am at least more comfortable on that leg of the
flight.
According to the animated map, we've recently passed over
Islamabad and are over the Indian subcontinent. So, I guess this is as far east
as I have ever but then, that would be true every moment from here until I land
at Sydney.
I have a nice comfy seat, I have a nice big table to hold
my laptop, and the flight staff could not be nicer! There is power for my
laptop so I can write my blog entries, I have books, movies, and television
programs on my tablet. I am all set.
Wherever you are this evening, I hope that you are as
comfortably situated!
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