When love meets the iron fist of Midwestern morality November 9th, 1989. The Berlin Wall is crumbling, and I’m sitting at LAX with a thirty-minute flight delay, watching CNN replay the same footage of Germans with sledgehammers. United Airlines is flying me from California through Denver and Tulsa to Wichita, Kansas. Four, maybe five hours… Read More The Chaste Plains of the Midwest
Arriving in Calcutta. I want to stay a few days, check out the city and then continue on to the northeast of India, the tip between China, Bhutan, Tibet, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The region is often closed to foreigners, then open again, closed, open etc. you never know exactly how the situation will be the… Read More difficult decision
The Boeing 777 takes off from Suvarnabhumi Airport on time. The Airfrance flight in direction Paris runs smoothly and calmly. But then, after about 9 hours of covered distance, an announcement from the captain “we have to land in Vienna unexpectedly because of a technical problem”. Some passengers already seem to get angry because they… Read More Emergency landing on Flight from Bangkok to Paris
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