31st evening after office, I rushed to the airport to take a flight to southern California. I had something about trips to California this year, this being my 3rd visit, the 2nd one being 3 days ago. Anyway, so I had this flight about to land in Orange County at 9pm, giving my friends sufficient time to pick me up, have dinner, and then go see fireworks on some beach.
So I was having fun, occupying all the 3 seats singly in the Alaskan Airline flight, when the pilot announced that fog conditions had reduced visibility and there was a possibility that the flights would be rerouted. What fun, not knowing a single person except my friends. The plane circled over orange county for 30 minutes till I had learnt the entire landscape by heart. I did see some fireworks being suspended midair. The pilot the announced that the plane was running out of fuel and they need to head towards LA.
The plane finally landed in LA, in the middle of a foggy nowhere from where I hopped on to a bus to claim my luggage. LA was my first port of entry to the US, the first time I had landed on US soil, and that’s the extent of my attachment with LA. It’s a huge airport, and they always made us hop on to buses to transport us to the other corner of the airport. That was the case this time too. After claiming my baggage, I waited for another hour for a bus to take me to the OC airport. I was dead tired, and the moment I hopped on to the bus for the one hour long foggy drive, I fell asleep. Sometime then, the clock struck 12.
So this was the moment I stepped into the new year, cold and lonely, rerouted into a different city and travelling in a bus in the dark towards OC airport. Not really thrilling or adventurous, but a friend of mine predicts extensive adventurous trips for me this year after she heard this. Let’s see.
So I was having fun, occupying all the 3 seats singly in the Alaskan Airline flight, when the pilot announced that fog conditions had reduced visibility and there was a possibility that the flights would be rerouted. What fun, not knowing a single person except my friends. The plane circled over orange county for 30 minutes till I had learnt the entire landscape by heart. I did see some fireworks being suspended midair. The pilot the announced that the plane was running out of fuel and they need to head towards LA.
The plane finally landed in LA, in the middle of a foggy nowhere from where I hopped on to a bus to claim my luggage. LA was my first port of entry to the US, the first time I had landed on US soil, and that’s the extent of my attachment with LA. It’s a huge airport, and they always made us hop on to buses to transport us to the other corner of the airport. That was the case this time too. After claiming my baggage, I waited for another hour for a bus to take me to the OC airport. I was dead tired, and the moment I hopped on to the bus for the one hour long foggy drive, I fell asleep. Sometime then, the clock struck 12.
So this was the moment I stepped into the new year, cold and lonely, rerouted into a different city and travelling in a bus in the dark towards OC airport. Not really thrilling or adventurous, but a friend of mine predicts extensive adventurous trips for me this year after she heard this. Let’s see.
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How did you start your new year?
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sunshine.
sunshine.
5 comments:
:) on the lines of having the entire year the same way it starts, look at it the brighter side - you may get to travel v comfy in airlines with the adjacent seats vacant, all year thru! :) Happy New Year!
awwwww...but well..atleast this didn't happen on 1st..all of the hungama got over on 31st of 2008! so this yr..im guessin u'll sleep a lot making up for all of the sleep u lost while writing ur thesis:)
We had a pot-luck dinner with few friends n opened a champagne bottle when it struck 12! :)
mine was in a way similar to yours.. i was stranded on singapore airport and i was supposed to be in mumbai few hours before 0000 hours...
Well, I too ushered into the new year in a similar fashion. Was traveling to Calicut in a bus on the bumpy highways...
Happy New Year.
Cheers!!
Happy New Year Sunshine. :)
I hope things get better going forward.
Our experience was good. :) http://sudsblog.com/?p=527
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