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Asia 2009: Day 21 (The voyage home)
Posted on October 28th, 2009 7 commentsOn Tuesday it was time for the long flight home to SFO. I left Hong Kong at 12:30pm local time, and arrived at SFO 3.5 hours before I left (well, you know I mean). I stayed up for as long as I could, and then went to sleep at around 6pm. Today is going to be a tough day, for sure.
On this flight I had the new United business class seat. While it’s leaps and bounds above the old seat, there’s not enough room for my big feet, and climbing over the legs of the person in the aisle seat (especially when they’re sleeping) requires Olympic strength.
The house is one piece, the kitties were happy to see me, and I have a stack of a bills nearly a foot thick to go through. It was a fun trip, but now it’s time to get back to reality.
Total distance flown: 12,327 mi
Total distance sailed: 3,384 nm
Total distance walked: Too much
Pounds gained: I don’t want to know-
- HKG airport
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- My ride home
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- New UA biz class seat
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- Seat controls
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- Games!
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- Map of our route
7 responses to “Asia 2009: Day 21 (The voyage home)”
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Nice job on getting an upgrade confirmed HKG-SFO. This route is notoriously tough to get an upgrade. In all my years of flying to Asia on United, I’ve only done the HKG-SFO non-stop once and I had to sweat it out at the gate hoping my upgrade would clear, which it did.
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I applied for the upgrade (using miles) back when I booked the ticket. I knew it was going to clear right away so I didn’t have to worry.
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That’s good that you didn’t have to worry. Only 10 upgraded passengers in business on Tuesday from what I’ve been told!
I am leaving for Singapore tomorrow and have to go via Seattle-Tokyo, since my usual options of going via SFO-Tokyo or SFO-Hong Kong are full up front.
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I guess you lucked out and got home before the Bay Bridge was closed?
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Jeff,
What is your impression of the GF1 for the Asian trip? Can you show some of the high res photos for us to check out? Thanks -
Worked out very well. My review pretty much covers my thoughts, though I found that the camera does clip highlights more than I had noticed when I reviewed it. Also, the lens release button is poorly placed and too easily to bump accidentally, which can throw you out of menus or playback mode, or cause a lens error.
I’ll see what I can do about those full size photos.
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Kevin October 28th, 2009 at 12:31