Quite a few hours gone by already, many more to go (36 hours total travel time to Kathmandu); sitting much too long in the MSP airport causes me to consider whether “it” IS sometimes the destination rather than the journey.

The most interesting thing so far were the usual oddities on a plane… a person getting up for the toilet as we were taxiing in causing the 757 to stop on the Tarmac until she finished probably the most noteworthy.

Who knew you could get free iPad use and order a can of beer and a panini online and it appears at your little iPad table here in MSP! And where else in the world can you get a panini with bacon, mozzarella, a little splash of fresh basil? This must be the Midwest!

Next leg is 8.5 hours to AMS in a “preferred seat” which I’m sure will be some minor increment of improvement better than an unpreferred seat! Yes, pretty sure this is a time when the destination is “it!”