A: We are about to find out. There has been a stream of mechanics coming in and out of the cockpit for the last forty minutes as we sit in the plan at the gate waiting for a status update 🙁

… you make fun of your own race 🙂

If you can read it, it says “Student Female Asian Driver. Good Luck Everybody Else” 🙂

Found this on my drive from Corvallis to Portland yesterday…

Only in Portland would the airport authorities be prepared for the eventuality that somebody might pack their bike in the plane and would therefore need some space to reassemble their bike back before they ride home from the airport!!!

This week I was in Philly for a couple of days and stayed at the Marriott next to the airport. My flight was delayed late at night and I was consequently very tired when I checked in. The lady gave me my room keys and wrote down “1240” for my room number on the card and pointed me to the elevator.

Off I went to the elevator. Pressed the 12th floor button and started reading the helpful directory. Much to my chagrin, all floors seemed to have the 39th room as the last room. There was no 1240! Quite sure that the lady had made a mistake in writing the room number, I was wondering whether to go down and get the new room number. But I was too tired – so I figured I was going to give it a shot and then call downstairs from my phone or one of those floor phones next to the elevators many hotels have.

I am glad I did because there sure was a 1240 (and more after that) and my key worked fine. Next day, just to be sure, when I went to the Concierge Lounge (15th floor), I went and checked – there was a 1540 – and actually a few more rooms after that. But the elevator would not let you believe so!

Strange!! The hotel did not look like it had been extended lately – or in a long time for that matter. However, I completely forgot to ask the hotel folks the next day! I guess I have to wait till the next time…

Driving from Corvallis to Portland yesterday, I took a break at Salem for a Starbucks coffee. Got back into the car and asked Google Maps for directions. Following is what I got. Do you see something strange in this? In reality, there is no Interstate Highway 1 that goes to Portland! Actually, there is no such thing as Interstate Highway 1 at all in USA!!! Very strange!!

… when you breeze thru the security line only to be stumped by an unending line for Starbucks coffee. Amazing how we have trained ourselves to part with five dollars for some average coffee only because they give the coffee some French sounding names !!

It is like the mountains got real curious and started peeking thru the clouds wondering “What is that shiny aluminum tube waaaaay up there? 🙂

Beautiful view from 39,000 feet!

Our company is in the business of geospatial data analytics. We collect our own data. Which means we have quite a few airplanes to collect data from the sky. While reviewing our business here in Alaska, the team members took me out to the hangar and gave a preview of our data collection nitty gritties. In the end, they offered to take me up in the air and show how the sophisticated cameras and sensors work.

I even got to be the co-pilot! Although, in reality all that meant was I got to take a lot of pictures from my vantage point with my own less-than-sophisticated camera in my iPhone 🙂

Got a great view of the mountains, glaciers and water (Turnagain Arm). Great experience!!