Day 28 - Flying Home
Trip Start
Jun 28, 2009
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Trip End
Jul 26, 2009
Beijing, Beijing, China
Sunday, July 26, 2009
On the first plane to Chicago, I spent the first half reading the book called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night. It is a book about the murder of a dog told by from the point of view of a autistic teenager who is brilliant in math and physics. I love the book. The math problems he presented were interesting since they were some of the same that I solved in some of my college physics classes. The second half of the flight I watched five episodes of Criminal Minds.
In Chicago we did not have a huge layover. After customs and going to opposite side of the airport, we only had about an hour until the flight to Roanoke. Micheal, a professor at Virginia Tech, and I had a chance to discuss the experiences of the last month for a little while. The flight to Roanoke felt like a mom and pop operation. I tried to stay awake for the flight to help with the jet lag. I was not very successful.
We got to Roanoke, finally, at about 10 pm. This is the same day that we left. So we were traveling for nearly 24 hours, but it only took about 12. This made us very tired by the time we got home since we had been up for about 36 hours. This allowed me to adjust to then new time zone pretty quickly.
