28 December 2011

NRT-TPE

NRT-TPE
28122011
19.23 NRT time

Taxiing on the apron toward the runway. Despite having missed the 17.20 connecting flight, I did  manage to grab a quick shower in the lounge and another connecting  flight to TPE. Will be arriving two hours or so later, but so be it...

First time I'm sitting "backwards"'on the plane. Next to us is an Air Canada Boeing 767, on its way back to somewhere in Canada. I saw the red maple leaf on the tail, and it looks and feels so familiar...

But the thought crossed my mind: when will I go home back to Canada again? I cannot but begin to feel that Asia, and everything here, is slowly consuming me and swallowing me in...

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