The Attractiveness of Airports

"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, 'as pretty as an airport.' Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort." - D. Adams

Thing is, after many, many hours of travelling, I’ve found that I don’t even give a damn. They’re ugly, they’re pretty, they’re quiet, they’re loud…(For the record, Vancouver airport is beautiful in a faux-wilderness style, while Tokyo is strangely quiet. Also, LAX definitely makes that special effort to be very ugly.)

In my infinite hours of free time, I have figured out how many hours I’ve traveled.

Driving from Vegas to LA: 3.5 hours
Flying from LAX to Vancouver: 3 hours
Flying from Vancouver to Tokyo: 9 hours
Flying from Tokyo to Hong Kong: 5 hours

All in all, that’s 20.5 hours. Factor in all the layover time (of which there was quite a bit), and I’ve been sitting in various places for more than 30 hours straight (you can only wander around an airport for so long). Tomorrow, I am going to go for a seriously long walk around HK, even if those T-storms happen for real.

Fun facts:

- Air Canada’s in flight entertainment system is AWESOME. I watched How to Train Your Dragon and 500 Days of Summer in French, and still had time for a couple episodes of Modern family and 30 Rock. (In between all of this, I catnapped like crazy.)
- For the first time ever, I didn’t have to sit next to a fat person who would take over most of my seat, but a cute Japanese boy. Too bad he didn’t speak English and seemed to actually like watching Tom Cruise movies. Ah well.

Peace out.