Monday, November 03, 2008

Los Angeles, USA



"Hi there.

This is surreal.

Greetings from the Airplane Graveyard.

We're in the middle of the Sonoran desert and the planes keep landing. A 747 from hong kong just pulled up... A 777 from Chile.... The middle of nowhere. Apparently LAX is closed for a bit. Everything in the southwest is being sent somewhere else. Feels very nine eleven. I wish it was feeling a bit more seven eleven. I'm starving and there's no food left on the plane. Want potato chips. Want you."

A direct cut-and-paste from a text message conversation that I had several nights ago as my plane dove towards a random desert airstip airport east of town... running for cover as the naton's 3rd busiest aiport unexpectedly shuts down for a few moments.

Staring at strangers from all over the world through small little windows.

What is going on?

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