The Good News.
Escorting your elderly mother through Dulles, a breeze save that it is miles and miles and miles long all the way to the gate.
Getting through the TSA easier save that awful moment when you realize your mother has packed in her hair product and large skin cream items into her carry on luggage despite my earlier warnings not to do so and you have to watch the agent fret over confiscating them.
no one wants to be the bad guy.
TSA agent: Do you have family here at the airport?
TSA agent: can you take it back and put in your checked luggage?
Me: No. I doubt it.
TSA Agent: So sorry.
Goodbye skin cream and hair products.
then it's a casual stroll with two rather heavy pieces of carry on luggage to the gate to wait and wait and wait.
This was the moment when I discover that my tablet is nearly out of power and my cell is not far behind.
I tried the recharge island with little to no luck.
I did meet a friendly evangelical baptist pastor and his wife on the way to SA for him to receive a doctorate. Yep, he took distance grad courses from California to South Africa to get a PHD in Ministry.
They were Mac Monsters and probably the primary drain on the power field. Well not everyone is perfect.
He did pump me with questions about Jesus and my own beliefs. Not too judgmental but still couldn't resist informing me that the entire bible was really just one gospel.... His wife did like most of what I said though.
No, not going to tell you what I said either.
I ended up sore from standing and with little to no recharge on my droids.
The Bad News.
7 hours to Dakar (my brother will says this is a good band name)
1. We got good seat assignment.
2. Found out they put us in wrong seats when the sitter showed up. He was surprisingly cool about it.
3. Instead of a row of seats with armrests you could fold up to lie down on we ended up the the front row of economy where the seats have those foldable trays and consoles.
4. The "cushions" are slightly softer than rocks.
5. I got my cpap battery to work with a phillips respironics CPAP/BiPAP but quickly figured out I could not sleep sitting straight up.
did the seat lean back? yes, no not really.
6. spent the first 7 hours shifting around from one uncomfortable to another slightly less uncomfortable position.
7. I have to pee it seems like every 20 minutes, I am endlessly thirsty.
The Good News
1. As far as I was concerned the air staff were very friendly
2. The food was sooooo much better than other airline food I have had to consume.
3. lots to watch since my tablet was offline
4. mostly smooth sailing, so smooth that at times- you'd swear the plane had stopped moving.
The Bad News
1. water, water, water....bathroom bathroom bathroom.
2. the console (per seat) was really bad touchscreen so you had to mash your finger to select something
3. the games on console did not work with the touch screen. I am kind of relieved there was no haloish games.
4. longest 7 hours of my life.
5. during the descent to Dakar, I discovered the problem of living and spending most of my time at the elevation of the Tennessee Valley.
my ears stopped up (blocked) to the point I went deaf- pratcially anyway. They did not unstop until we wear in flight later.
6. One hour layover- had to stay on the plane while the landing staff cleaned and reprepped the plane for more people.
and that was life across the Atlantic according to lard ass- err I mean Mike (I actually think if I had had a fat ass it would have been more cormfortable)
(I blame genetics...or my father for this).
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