We are cooling our heels in the United Airlines Lounge in San Francisco Airport. As is frequently the case returning from Asia, you travel a long time (in this case around 32 hours) but end up arriving the same day as you left because of the time zone differences.
If you been following our travels in recent years, we are still fighting to find the formula for these long distance trip returns that gives us sufficient rest so we don't get sick. I really thought we had this one figured out as we had our longest leg (9 hours) going overnight through our natural sleep period. And we were flying a really great plane, ANA's Boeing 777 which has one of the largest business class seats around. Ideal set up for reasonable sleep.
However, fate conspired against us. During the meal service, we encountered extreme turbulence which caused the meal service to be delayed right in the middle by an hour in the middle of it. That was an hour of precious sleep lost. Then for some reason ANA wakes everyone up 2 hours before landing for breakfast. Most other airline wait until an hour or an hour and a quarter before landing. So a bit more precious sleep lost. And for scheduling reasons, we have a very long layover here for the last flight. We will see how this all plays out.
And to add that bit of irony mentioned in the title, we were looking forward to some basic Western fare at the United Club. Nope. Asian. Asian soups, Thai Curry, Chinese Stir-fry. And very mediocre versions of those. Guess will have to wait for home cooking to get our Western food fix.
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