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before it gets away from me, my last day in shanghai...
afrer a nice night wandering around the bund, i had to wake up early to finish up packing and get my ass to the airport.
my host aaron took me to the station where i got to jump on that maglev train that i wanted to check out.
i didn't get good photos though.
it's really out of the way though (in Pudong) and i don't quite see how it's very useful to the people that actually live in Shanghai.
they're going to have to extend it which they're working on.
bur it is nice. the thing is fast. 7 minutes to go about 30 km and the thing can go super fast
i think i got a crappy foto of it hitting 430 something kph.
anyhoo, got to the airport and then had to walk allllll the way down to the far end (that's where the check in was for JAL.
JAL lady was so nice.
since i had extra time i tried to sort out my United flight by seeing if there was anything i could do to get on a proper ANA flight.
unfortunately, there was no nice lady at the united airlines stands or offices. there was simply no one there. I went to the ANA desk and the lady there couldnt help me either :(
JAL flight was super. the little fod trays had little heating pads for the hot food too.
and they gave you a lot of silverware as well... enough to hija.. nah. better not say it in case i get in trouble for such jokes..
so back to Narita and a quick change of terminals. I wandered around the area I was in when i left tokyo last and found the United Airlines transfer counter there. i wrote about that in my earlier post.
Oh, I DID forget to mention sitting in the plane for almost 2 hours. or maybe one hour +
i forget. annoying but better than finding out there's a problem IN the air.
though actually, this was not because of UA, but the entire airport was temporarily shut down for a while.
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and premium economy on UA is SUCK
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arrived in SFO
not delayed for once in customs/immigration
and now i've had jetlag all these week
i thought that was bad.
pfft.
afrer a nice night wandering around the bund, i had to wake up early to finish up packing and get my ass to the airport.
my host aaron took me to the station where i got to jump on that maglev train that i wanted to check out.
i didn't get good photos though.
it's really out of the way though (in Pudong) and i don't quite see how it's very useful to the people that actually live in Shanghai.
they're going to have to extend it which they're working on.
bur it is nice. the thing is fast. 7 minutes to go about 30 km and the thing can go super fast
i think i got a crappy foto of it hitting 430 something kph.
anyhoo, got to the airport and then had to walk allllll the way down to the far end (that's where the check in was for JAL.
JAL lady was so nice.
since i had extra time i tried to sort out my United flight by seeing if there was anything i could do to get on a proper ANA flight.
unfortunately, there was no nice lady at the united airlines stands or offices. there was simply no one there. I went to the ANA desk and the lady there couldnt help me either :(
JAL flight was super. the little fod trays had little heating pads for the hot food too.
and they gave you a lot of silverware as well... enough to hija.. nah. better not say it in case i get in trouble for such jokes..
so back to Narita and a quick change of terminals. I wandered around the area I was in when i left tokyo last and found the United Airlines transfer counter there. i wrote about that in my earlier post.
Oh, I DID forget to mention sitting in the plane for almost 2 hours. or maybe one hour +
i forget. annoying but better than finding out there's a problem IN the air.
though actually, this was not because of UA, but the entire airport was temporarily shut down for a while.
-----
and premium economy on UA is SUCK
---
arrived in SFO
not delayed for once in customs/immigration
and now i've had jetlag all these week
i thought that was bad.
pfft.
