I left LAX at 12:55 PM August 27th on a 11 1/2 hour flight across the Pacific Ocean and arrived in Tokyo 4:20 PM August 28th. Damn that international time zone line. I didn't sleep one bit on the airplane because I was hooked up with business class and it was too much fun to sleep. Free drinks and gourmet meals along with a fully transforming chair/bed. Each seat had its own fold out 9in TV with news, movies, games, and music on demand. I watched the 1978 surf film Big Wednesday starring the always charming Gary Busey. Not sure why the hell that movie was on demand among blockbusters like Kung Fu Panda and Chronicles on Narnia. I can't believe I'm admitting this, but I actually watched What Happens in Vegas with Aston Kutcher. Don't foresee any Oscars there.
In between flicks, I started to read the book The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by Maarten Troost. I love his writing style and I plowed through nearly half the book on the plane, often chuckling a little and waking the other passengers asleep in their beds. I took a little break and played some MLB 2K7 on my PSP. Continued my season with the Angels of course. Started my boy Joe Saunders against the Seattle Mariners. Vladdy went 4-5 with 2 HRs and Napoli hit a 3-run jack. Typical of the Angels, slaughtering anyone in the AL West. The most fun on a airplane ever! When we landed they had to drag me off that plane kicking and screaming.
From Tokyo, I needed to get on a 2 hour ecomony class (yuck) flight to the island Kyūshū, which is where the city of Fukuoka is located. At 7:55 PM August 28th, I had finally arrived!
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