Friday, September 5, 2008

Off To Los Angeles Triathlon


Finally, it is the day of my travel to California for the L.A. triathlon. It's been 4 years since i last visited California. It was sort of business trip, a training for the then newly introduced Canon copiers where I attended the Canon Support training at the facilty in Irvine,California.
This time is a personal trip.
My Northwest Airline flight to Japan, where I am to get my connecting flight was delayed! And you know what causes the delay of the flight? POWER OUTAGE!Ai, Adeey!!Nobody is now exempt from this failure. A failure that is now emblematic to
CNMI government inefficiencies. What a shame! I can feel at the airport all the frustrations of Japanese tourist because of this outage. Oh well. Thanks to Weng's free VIP Hafa Adai Lounge voucher. I had a "eat all you can" free snacks at the lounge for the rest of power outage...The TSA inspectors had to checked our carry-on bags manually which literally created a line up to main entrance of the airport.

Japan to Honolulu is the next segment of my trip. I was supposed to visit Honolulu next month, in time for the Xterra World Champioship in Maui, but then decided to join instead this LA triathlon where I am now heading. My first time to be in Narita International Airport where the athmosphere is a bit different compared to Nagoya Airport where I had a lay-over flight last May 2008 on my way to Manila. Narita Airport looks more modern compared to Nagoya Airport, but just the same both airport has plenty of Japanese. Jokex3.

Honolulu to Los Angeles, last part of my trip. As I've heard so many times about U.S. air transportations services, my Delta Airline flight was delayed for almost two hours, and the more than 5 hours of travel was spent mostly playing solitaire using the built-in monitor installed on each rear side of the passenger seat. No in-flight movie on my monitor, as the flight attendant announced that movies can only be viewed in selected monitors because of "technical difficulty". However, we are free daw to move into other seat and look for a functioning monitor. How can you move around if those other seats are already assigned to passengers!!!Laaanyyaaa!!