Day 10: I’m Home
May 21st, 2009 by Blake
- My plane from Wuhan to Shanghai was canceled, so I was rescheduled on a different one.
- When a taxi cab driver drove me to the bus station, as soon as he pulled up, some homeless guy opened my door and was begging for money.
- When I was walking up to the bus station, a couple guys kept on trying to get me to take their taxis instead. One of them had a pretty firm grasp on my arm, but I just kept on walking. I just repeating “I already have a bus ticket” over and over again.
- Neither Wuhan or Shanghai make you take off your shoes. The security is a lot simpler and relaxing. If you walk through and set off the metal detector, they just wave the wand around you and let you pass.
- Boarding the flight from Shanghai to Newark, they perform a manual inspection of carry-on bags (probably for liquids). When checking mine, I just said “It’s all electronics” and they let me go.
- US Customs was pretty easy. For some reason, most everyone else had to get their finger prints taken, but I was just allowed to get my passport stamped and walk through.
- Could have used some extra time between the Newark to Minneapolis connection. I really did not have much free time there after going through US Customs.
- Once again, the food in American airlines is pretty lame in comparison to Chinese airlines.
- On my long flight back to Newark from Shanghai, I used the in-flight entertainment for most of it. I broke out my Nintendo DSi towards the end though.
- New York looks awesome at night from the sky. I just wish I could have broken out my camera during the take-off. Sunset looks amazing from the plane too.
- The Wuhan bus station feels like a mini-airport. The buses feel like a plane.
- The girl next to me on my China Southern flight from Wuhan to Shanghai putted a netbook out of her purse. Those things fit anywhere…
- On my flight to Newark, they reassigned my seat.
- The bag that I checked in did not make the flight back to MN. I’ll get it tomorrow apparently.
