Well I must say that travel from McGuire AFB in NJ is a bit more unpredictable than travel from Dover (my usual jumping off point for space a trips). First there was a flight to Hawaii on Mon, then it was cancelled last minute. Then there was a flight to Washington today, but decided to leave early (and I missed it by minutes! :( After arriving here for what I thought would be an uneventful flight to Washington around noon, it turns out they left early but there was another flight coming in this afternoon that could potentially leave early too. I decided to stick close to the terminal and hold my breath. Fortunately, my cousin Mike (who you'll be hearing a lot about in this blog since he is also flying to Japan) lives about
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