Thursday, August 14, 2008
Today I flew from my home base to Costa Rica on a Delta flight through Atlanta. Both flights were on time and my luggage made it through no problem. I don’t know the exact type of plane that I took (it had a 2-3-2 seating configuration) but it had about 100 empty seats. More than a lot of earlier flights I’ve taken. However, the concourse was jammed pack with tourists so I believe it was more of an anomaly than a trend.
The good news was that I had three seats to myself to lay down. That is really nice when you have to get up at 3 am after about 2 hours of sleep the night before.
I’d never flown on a flight where you could watch (for $2) HBO movies. I chose to watch an episode of John Adams. I usually don’t like long flights, but I could have withstood another hour to watch another episode.
I was picked up by the manager and lead singer of the award winning pop group Calle 8. Click here for more information. We drove from San Jose to San Isidro del General as they were performing that night at a fund raiser for the local soccer club. The duty free station in San Jose had several great deals that I couldn’t pass up.
That night I went to bed very early and skipped the concert. The last thing I felt like doing was dancing all night long although I was torn as it was good to be back in Costa Rica.
