3 countries, 19 hours in the air, 13 hours hanging around airports, 1 migraine, 2 laps of LAX airport and several episodes of Top Gear later I finally arrived at my destination - Vancouver. First discoveries were, Vancouver airport is very nice, quite similar to Hong Kong and Singapore airports, even has a big waterfall, second thing was my phone's SIM didn't work, so the next hour was spent trying to find a local SIM, after enquiring at a bunch of local operators I got one that was meant to work in my phone, it didn't. Thankfully I had made an estimate time of arrival and agreed a location with Chrissy, my Vancover contact and after a nail biting 40 minutes at the said station with no way of contacting her, no map and no tea, we located each other. Relief.
Notes and thoughts:
- Transiting passengers going via LAX airport have to go through immigration control, there are 100 booths and some officials to direct you to the correct ones, don't listen to them, they have no idea. You will also have a small dog come and sniff you.
- The best way to kill time in LAX is to leave the airport, cross the road go to the furthest point and there is a nice park.
- It takes 25 minutes to walk a lap of LAX.
- Qantas seats are nice, but the airline steward staff are short sighted.
- Thank goodness for Top Gear
I very much enjoyed and look forward to more stories precariously in hope of tea...
ReplyDeleteGood to here not only entered, but escaped LA airport!
ReplyDeleteYou need to go to Kitsilano beach - that's where I lived...
Looking forward to your tales ... and I shall enjoy vicariously through you. Hopefully your new sim would work in the States as well ;-). Sham
ReplyDeletei feel i should thank you for the prior notifications regarding LAX. I'll be there in a few weeks. oh the joy! looks like you're having a blast so far though. love the blog :-)
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