Flight

What a long flight!!!
Our flight left IAH at approximately 9:05pm. We arrived LAX approximately 10:30pm (Pacific time). With 3+ hours until our next flight, we were trying to figure out what we would do with our time. Then we arrived at the screening line. We had to go back through the screening process and this line was absolutely huge! We made it through the line in less than an hour and then went to our gate. We had hoped that since our flight was on a Thursday and wasn’t until 1:40am that it would be fairly empty; boy were we wrong.

Frank gave me his first class seat and took my coach seat so that my back would (hopefully) be ok.
Our plane was a double-decker 747 and I was upstairs. The seats were really great because they reclined into a bed but didn’t invade the space of the people sitting behind you.

The flight was long but uneventful. We arrived in Taipei, Taiwan at approximately 6:10am Saturday morning. Flying into Taipei was very nice. There were hills and mountains surrounded by what looked like lush areas and then there were areas with dense houses or apartments. I wanted to take pictures as we landed but wasn’t able to because those first class seats are fairly roomy and I was sitting on the aisle.

The airport was very nice. After being in the LAX airport, this one seemed like a palace. We had to leave the plane (with our carry-ons), go through the screening process again and then get back on the plane.
Our flight from Taipei to Kuala Lumpur left at 7:45am and arrived about 12:30pm.
Landing in Kuala Lumpur (KL) was different for two reasons. First, it was raining so it was hard to see much until we got very close to the ground. Second, it looked like an immense national forest because of all of the trees. The closer we got, I realized that the trees didn’t look like forest-type trees. I asked the flight attendant what they were and she told me that they were palm trees.
I got permission to sit in an empty aisle for the landing so I could take pictures. Unfortunately the pictures aren’t that great because of the overcast weather (and I’m not that great a photographer).