1st Travel Journal Entry

3:10 AM Thursday May 3, 2007 - BWI Airport

I'm hella early. There's no one at the check-in counters. Still, all the benches in this area are taken up by other waiting travelers. Most of them are sprawled out, napping. I'm actually sitting on a long bench, in between two sleeping people. LOL The guy on my left snores...and for some reason, the elevator on my left keeps opening randomly and no one ever comes out.

Holy shit!!! The cops in the airport ride around on SEGWAYS!!! Those things are SO fun to ride! *sigh* I think that will be the highlight of this morning, unfortunately. I didn't bring my iPod since I wanted to devote all my senses to Japan once I got there. The only major piece of electronics I'm bringing is my camera. I already took a pre-flight pic at home. Unless something extraordinary happens between now and my arrival in Japan, I'm not taking any more pictures.

Oh... shoot me. It's only 3:24 AM.

Um... OK. There's one counter for e-tickets with bags to check and another for international destinations. My first guess is the latter, but... I'm not sure any more.

You know, I think this is the cleanest US airport I've ever seen. Then again, it's 3:30 AM and the cleaning staff is still going over the place. Narita, however, is ALWAYS nice and clean. Mom still talks about the cleanliness of that airport.

For some reason, there's a small crowd lined up at the US Airways counters. I mean seriously? There is NOBODY at ANY of the ticket counters! I wonder where they're going.