So much to say... so little time to say it.

My flights were pretty messed up. The first plane had inertia sensor problems. Even I knew the captain's half-brained idea to reboot the planes's computers wouldn't be a safe plan, even if they made the idiot lights turn off in the cockpit. After an hour on the tarmac, the flight was cancelled and we deboarded. I ran to the front of the airport and managed to redo my Dallas-SF flight to a Dallas-Chicago flight. That would still get me to Tokyo in time for the connection to Manila.

The 777 in Chicago was too heavy, so we waited an hour for a longer runway. We made up for it by going a slightly more direct route in the air (which still curved up to Alaska).

When I got to Tokyo, there was a cute trainee waiting there to walk me to my connecting flight! I was getting the royal treatment!

The jumbo jet from Tokyo was pretty nice, but got to us 1 hour late from it's prior stop, had a delinquent passenger that forced a mad search for his luggage undereath, and paperwork delays... This resulted in about a 2.5 hour delay total in Tokyo... but it was worth it! All of the flight attendents were hot! The one I had looked just like the girl (Zhang Zihi) from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"...

Once in Manila, Customs was a breeze... More to come later!------------------------------------------------------

TRAFFIC!!! It is chaos x10!!! Everyone honks at least 5 times a minute. It is a form of commuication:
1 honk -> "Hey!"
2 honks -> "Acknowledged!"
3 honks -> "WTF?! Get off the road before I run you off!"

... and that honking takes place all night at all hours. I couldn't get any sleep at first... because it had me laughing so hard! I wasn't pissed at it the way I was in Manhattan's hotels. In PI, the honking is so insane it is hilarious! They will literally lay on the horn until the battery drains!