The Time Traveller’s LifeBy Lee

The flight from Honolulu to Auckland, New Zealand is divided by a short layover in Fiji. Incongruously, the flight time between the two islands is in the region of 26 hours, which of course is accurate, if we were travelling by speed-boat.

The inflated flight time is, obviously, distorted by the fact that, somewhere at 30,000 feet and over 600kph, we cross over the International Date Line, deprived of the entire day we’ve previously stolen by constantly chasing the sun westwards.

Flight time is actually about six hours, but with the jolting effect of at one point being behind home in terms of time to now being somewhere in its near future, it’s perplexing and a tad off-putting. Everything becomes relative when the universe is viewed, not from a fixed point in time, but a constantly changing one.

Tags: Fiji, International Date Line, Time travel

Day 18 – 23 : Hawaii – “Think of every natural disaster possible. We’ve got it.”By Lee

We board at Vancouver, fly south to LAX and endure a four hour lay-over. Sheila tries to sleep (on the floor) and I amuse myself by staring at a Sony kiosk machine and its thorough service-man as he phlegmatically restocks earphones and eReaders into its esurient guts. (Yes, you can buy an eReader from a machine in LAX).

After the morning’s stunt escapades, and a non-stop barrage of poor food choices, I feel like death. Thankfully the flight is another uneventful affair and we land in Honolulu without incident. At least, I don’t throw myself down any stairs between the plane and the baggage claim area which is always a bonus.

Tags: hawaii, oahu, Trip, volcano