Changi

[skyring]

Transit lounge, Changi airport, Singapore. Our jumbo is being refuelled and we are out stretching our legs and admiring the splendours of exotic Singapore. The airport is very nice and clean and large and modern, much like any other airport, I guess. Singapore itself is still in a pre-dawn state. Probably the most exotic thing I’ve seen is a squat toilet in the gents.

Today has been reasonably hectic, and I’m still kicking myself for not bringing along a couple of small thin books to release along the way. Too busy, I guess.

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[ravensroads.livejournal.com]

This is fun - I didn't somehow realise that you would be travelling at much the same time as me. I'll have to touch base when I am on the road, I will be home I guess in about 2 weeks' time. My nominal "would like to be back" date is 29th April.

I already know that I want to do this travelling again. From a point of view of experience and mind expansion, and meeting fantastic people, it's something I would love to have in my life...I have learned so much about myself and the world out there.

Travel boots on!

[skyring.livejournal.com]

I'm enjoying my travels. San Francisco is spectacular. Fort Worth was wonderful, and London was magic. And the bits in between, seen from the air, were just out of this world. Seeing snowcapped volcano peaks beyond Teheran - not something I ever expected to do in my life!

It would be nicer to share some of it with my wife, particularly the art galleries and museum, but then I'd be spending several times as much money - Kerri doesn't dig the cheap and cheerful hostel life I like - and I'd have to devote some of my scarce convention time to her.

As it was I couldn't keep my journals up to date. Not if I wanted to sleeo as well.

Re: Travel boots on!

[ravensroads.livejournal.com]

I love the map feature that most international flights seem to have, so I can get an idea of what I am flying over. It's really quite magical.

Now that I have the long life laptop battery I'll be able to type stuff on the long flights as well. It seemed to wear out kind of fast last time.

My experience as a traveller would have been very different with Don, and while I'm sure we will travel together, our tastes are exceedingly different and so our our ideas of what is a good time to set out and how long to go. I think that overall I am happier travelling alone, though I do know the feeling of travelling with someone with whom you are in tune and can share the adventure. I found that being alone, with a motorcycle and a lot of baggage, people were curious and came up to ask about what I was doing, which suited me fine. That doesn't happen with couples because people see a unit and figure "they're ok on their own".

I planned my trip so that I could write; after a couple of years of frustration when I wouldn't write things up right away and then lost the freshness and detail, I decided to change that somehow. Even so, I'm way behind.