boards; automobiles; planes...& more planes
Oct 4th - 5th
Blog start time 11 am (0630am GMT) Tuesday thru 0330 am Thursday (11pm GMT Wednesday):
Loooong day so seemed: Kovalum cloud 1 - 0 people (surf is ours!).....cloud break for sunset in waves = magical. Home.Pack.
9pm (1630pm GMT) Workshift=goodbyes to new friends (strange, seeems like i've known them so much longer). Taxi-Trivandrum airport check in + waitwaitwait.....flight-Abu Dhabi (4 hours/sleep little).
Abu Dhabi.Dutyfree.- hour flight Muscat; MADA obviously flying as landing=pants (scary) led Omanian(?) man sitting by me to keep looking at me repeating angrily LANDING!.....LANDING! nodded 'Yes.... Yes'......LANDING!....tried conversation (Omanian not good vs English single word = N:'At least we are alive' Omanian 'LANDING.....LANDING....LANDING!). Oman (time=fuckknows) best pannini in the world at costacoffee + frescato then waitwaitwait.....board.flight to LHR.
8 hours few passengers window to aisle seats mine = flight heaven. Indian guy talks of Hinduism + meditation.....he say ' Hindu's even meditate when driving' - I quip 'that explains a lot!' - blank look - retire to camp windowaisle + rest.
600mph 40k feet - interactive cameras show view from below plane/out front + satnav + window. Chase sun -70 outside clear skies landseapeacequiet til sol is a red line of fire on the horizon occasionally eclipsed by the wing and darkness has practically enveloped us. Satnav names the lights below as asian became middle eastern so east european becomes west + homecloser still. Tapestries of city lights web far below sparks as we graze cityscapes in our metal machine. Dark bulk of continent meet oily black of north sea ('where is my mind?.....way out in the water see it swimming' - Thnx Frank) circlesquare london then land-disembark-home (11pm GMT) (0330am tomorrow).
Blog start time 11 am (0630am GMT) Tuesday thru 0330 am Thursday (11pm GMT Wednesday):
Loooong day so seemed: Kovalum cloud 1 - 0 people (surf is ours!).....cloud break for sunset in waves = magical. Home.Pack.
9pm (1630pm GMT) Workshift=goodbyes to new friends (strange, seeems like i've known them so much longer). Taxi-Trivandrum airport check in + waitwaitwait.....flight-Abu Dhabi (4 hours/sleep little).
Abu Dhabi.Dutyfree.- hour flight Muscat; MADA obviously flying as landing=pants (scary) led Omanian(?) man sitting by me to keep looking at me repeating angrily LANDING!.....LANDING! nodded 'Yes.... Yes'......LANDING!....tried conversation (Omanian not good vs English single word = N:'At least we are alive' Omanian 'LANDING.....LANDING....LANDING!). Oman (time=fuckknows) best pannini in the world at costacoffee + frescato then waitwaitwait.....board.flight to LHR.
8 hours few passengers window to aisle seats mine = flight heaven. Indian guy talks of Hinduism + meditation.....he say ' Hindu's even meditate when driving' - I quip 'that explains a lot!' - blank look - retire to camp windowaisle + rest.
600mph 40k feet - interactive cameras show view from below plane/out front + satnav + window. Chase sun -70 outside clear skies landseapeacequiet til sol is a red line of fire on the horizon occasionally eclipsed by the wing and darkness has practically enveloped us. Satnav names the lights below as asian became middle eastern so east european becomes west + homecloser still. Tapestries of city lights web far below sparks as we graze cityscapes in our metal machine. Dark bulk of continent meet oily black of north sea ('where is my mind?.....way out in the water see it swimming' - Thnx Frank) circlesquare london then land-disembark-home (11pm GMT) (0330am tomorrow).
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