From the Air!

When you check into the airport for a leg of the trip home on a "standby" ticket, this is not what you want to see posted on the board! For whatever reason, NWA messed up this section of my itinerary and i had to make other arrangements to get to Tokyo to catch my flight home. but, alas, i did get on the plane for this mystery leg of travel! While i was checking my bags, they only wanted to check them through to Tokyo! Noooooooo! i begged, please check them all the way through to ERI! Not easy when she speaks chinese and i don't!!! a lot of finger pointing and the rest of my return paper ticket did the trick! My bags made it! WHEW!



When i fly TPE to Osaka, I never get to see this! for one, i'm never near a window seat and always on the wrong side of the plane! but today, you could see Mount Fuji rising gloriously above the clouds! this picture may not do it justice, but it really was quite inspiring!