The Long Hop

Good morning from somewhere off the coast of British Columbia. We've been in the air for 13+ hours on what has been a long but fairly comfortable flight. The Singapore Airlines A350 experience has been very nice with a surprising amount of leg room, comfortable seats, excellent service, access to internet and a smooth ride. Somehow, we all managed to get plenty of sleep. The day coming out of Singapore was very short because we were flying away from the sun and much of the flight was in the dark. With dawn upon us, we are about to start our decent into Seattle. 

This will mess with your head. We arrive in Seattle about an hour after we left Singapore despite flying for 15 hours! We crossed the international dateline during the flight which messes up the clock. In reality, it has been about 20 hours since we left Perth. The adventure starts when we touch down at SEA-TAC.

This epic holiday across the northern part of the US will take us to Seattle, Yellowstone, Chicago, Washington and New York. I'm sure there will be some wonderful stories to tell as this adventure unfolds.

Now we need to try to stay awake until as late as posible this evening to try to beat jet-lag.

Flight to Seattle

 

Well, we made it to Singapore, but not without incident. I won't go into it, but more often than not, red-eye flights are problematic for us. The late night; irregular meal times and lack of sleep are a cocktail of trouble. Singapore Airlines have well kitted out aircraft and fantastic service, but we are still pretty wrecked this morning. Fortunately, we have the next 15 hour flight to Seattle to catch up. This will be our first Airbus A350 experience and, Harry in particular, is very excited.

Flight to the US via Singapore

 

We are off on a grand adventure to the USA! Our Singapore Airlines Boeng 787 flight leaves shortly for Singapore and we will arrive there early tomorrow morning.