Flight of Misery

There's nothing worse than flying with a plane full of crying babies, make that Taiwanese babies in coach class for 19 hours. Add to that, sitting in the middle seat behind a cranky Chinese who pushes his seat in my face and in front of a woman who talks incessant Cantonese out-loud, to herself. Toss in an airline that serves greasy sausage and too little water and then loses my luggage at the destination and you've got one extremely dehydrated, sleep-deprived, frustrated passenger. Not just me but there's 4 of us flying to Tawaii, 2 for GoNomad, the other 2 from NYC Media. From JFK through Alaska to finally, Taipei, the trip was the noisiest bird I've ever flown in. "Plug your nose Sony, there's a woman about to get sick in front of us." alerts Paul, Photographer Extraordinaire. While everyone dons eye-masks and tosses their shoes aside, I'm stuck standing upright in place for hours because the aisles are too crowded to traverse. Taiwan awaits though and with it dawns a documentary, stock footage and interesting articles. The flight over isn't suppose to be glamourous - if it were it'd be part of the pending program. Oh no, I just lost internet connection inside this hotel again....uggghh.