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Tuesday November 23, 1999
The day began early as I awoke at 6:00am to take Roger to work so he could go to the airport with me. I spent the bulk of the day packing and running last minute errands, including picking up American Coke and Taco Bell supplies for my friend Joe in Sweden who I was going to visit. At 3pm, I met Roger at his work and we headed off to the airport. Now, British Airways says be there two hours ahead of departure, so I figured making it to LAX from Beverly Hills before 3:30 would be a snap. An hour later we arrived at the airport and proceeded to check in at the desk. I was assigned a middle seat, but was able to get a seat on an aisle after a bit of negotiating. I said goodbye to Roger and headed through the security check-point, where they questioned my 24 AA batteries. I told her about the digital camera and she let me pass.
I did not sleep on the plane. It was a Boeing 747-400 with video screens in the seatbacks, so I was able to select from 12 channels of entertainment and watched: An episode of the Saint with Roger Moore, A behind the scenes look at The World is Not Enough, Remington Steele, Absolutely Fabulous, Payback with Mel Gibson, Wild, Wild West the movie, Robbie Williams' Millenium Video, and Sheryl Crowe's Tomorrow Never Dies video (the last two about 3 times). When I looked up, we were ready to land in London.
Wednesday November 24, 1999
I arrived in London about noon, though a bit disoriented from lack of sleep. I proceeded to walk the 50 miles to the bus to transfer to terminal 1. By the time I arrived, I still had about 2 hours to kill before my plane to Copenhagen. I spent most of the time vegging in the Lounge and dining on some very bad British McDonalds. Managed to make it to the gate, where I answered a few questions to a nice lady who was conducting a survey for the British Airport Agency. I spent a good chunk of the flight to Copenhagen in various stages of sleep, too bad the flight was only 1.5 hours, I needed more sleep. Landing in Copenhagen, I proceeded to walk another 50 miles to get out of the terminal, part of the time was spent on some sort of bizarre catwalk. I met Joe outside of customs, and we proceeded to wait about 45 minutes for the bus to take us to the ferry to Malmo. The bus and the ferry to Malmo were pretty uneventful, with Joe pointing out some of the finer points of the city and the shoreline as we passed. I do not quite remember most of it, but we plan to go back on Saturday. Arriving in Malmo, we had about another 45 minute wait to catch the train. I noticed at this time that yes, in fact, it gets VERY cold in Sweden. Like Lake Tahoe in the morning in December was 7pm. The train to Lund was also uneventful,though when we arrived in Lund, we did the mad 100m dash to the Bus so we wouldn't have to wait in the cold again. Finally at 9pm local time (12 noon US time or 30 hours after I woke up) I sat in Joe's dorm room and watched TV, played
Quake and then fell sleep.
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