Monday, June 5, 2006

One leg left

Pausing to catch a few wifi minutes, passing through Denver. I thought I had enough of a layover at Dulles to get some work done, but I spent hours in a river of unhappy people crowding through the worst customs bottleneck I've seen since, well, the last time I went through Dulles. What an awful setup they have there. I'll bet up to a quarter of the people in line missed their connections.

It's 8:05pm here now. That's 4:05am in Denmark, where the sun is coming up, probably. I'm close to being up 24 hours now. I think I've had one hour of sleep on a plane, somewhere over Davis Straight, Labrador and northern Quebec.

I was on the wrong side of the plane for photography (the left, south, and sunny side); but Iceland and Greenland were clouded over anyway.

Severe turbulence under dissipating thunderstorms turned several planes away from appoaching Denver, but we got through okay. The storms are gorgeous now, in the evening light.

Okay, one more plane, then home.

One more reason I'll miss Denmark

The floors at CPH are wood. Even out through the concourses, you walk or push your luggage cart over soft, quiet, tasteful flooring.

The SAS lounge is also one of the nicest I've visited. An orange buddha statue sits silently at the top of the stairs. A fireplace burns quietly in the corner. Instead of peanut bags, a salad bar with a choice of fine breads. Two real cappuchino machines. Nice.

Hopping home

Had a fabulous time here in Copenhagen. I leave around noon today, and get back to Santa Barbara around 10 tonight, by way of D.C. and Denver. Long flight day.

See ya there.