Flight to Dohar, Qatar
My first experience on a big plane.
— 5 min read
Table of Contents
Layover
Our layover at Dallas, Texas lasted about 3 hours. Honestly, I don't know how I had managed to make the time pass. I didn't do anything particularly time consuming. I called my best friend who currently was also in Dallas, Texas as well. And then, after that, I went to go buy some goldfish snacks and water. It was, to say the least, pretty boring.
Then, we started to board.
Looking at my boarding pass, on it said zone 2. I didn't really know what that meant. It also didn't help that I couldn't see because I would later find out that the reason a bunch of people were lining up in this one particular area was because, near the end towards the terminal, were posted signs indicating zones 1, 2, 3, and so on.
It made more sense now why people were lining up. Because of my poor eyesight and frankly just my lack of experience in flying, I had ended up to be one of the last of my zone to board.
I am really feeling regretful about my broken glasses now.
Just about as we were to enter the the plane, we were, of course, needed to have our boarding passes out. But immediately, I got stumped because I also needed to have my passport in hand as well. So there were basically three checkpoints leading up to my seat. Not knowing this, I was pulled aside briefly, but quickly made my way back.
The first two checkpoints required that I show my passport and boarding pass. On the second checkpoint, I felt prepared so that time I didn't make any mistakes.
The third checkpoint was on the plane itself. Walking up to the door of the plane, I noticed other travelers handing their boarding pass to a man at the entrance.
I followed the crowd and did the same.
It turns out, they were giving me directions to my seats. Very nice of them to be so accommodating to someone with poor eyesight.
Picture Taking Off
Passing the Time
I was not too fond of the idea of staring into the back of a seat for 14 hours so I kept myself busy. I watched shows, ate snacks, drank water, breathed, closed my eyes, opened them, and finished a book that I had been reading the past month.
The Book
I like to read a lot. Most of the time, I read junk—web novels about how your father stole the eightfold path dragon crystal or some shit like that.
This one book in particular was different. It was not junk. It was a published novel considered to be highly acclaimed.
As I started to read, I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. The novel was described to me as a mystery and thriller. But if I were to describe it, I think one of its most defining characteristics, alongside the aforementioned genres, is its deep exploration of psychology.
It follows our main guy who is a therapist and he has taken an interest in our main girl. Our main girl currently stays at a mental institution or something where all methods, techniques, and treatments have been tried on her, yet she remains mute.
The interesting part though, is the fact that she isn't physically mute. The novel goes on to explore this mystery detailing her past of the murder of her husband. Immediately after the murder, which was supposedly very traumatic for our main girl, she did not speak a single word, not even as a defense for herself in the courts.
And so our main guy's primary motivation is to help out our main girl.
All throughout the novel, we are constantly left to wonder who had murdered the husband. I won't spoil much, but it's safe to say that that mystery got solved in the last remaining chapters.
The biggest ever plot twist in a deeply psychological thriller mystery novel I've read.
3 Hours left
I've been in the air for almost 11 hours now and my god is it a whole experience. It's so extremely bright out, but everyone's got their windows closed.
The cabin is pretty dark and from time to time the attendants would scroll through the aisles. Do they even sleep?
I wonder if the pilots get to sleep. I imagine that with the technology of today, autopilot would allow them to take a comfortable nap.
We're almost at Qatar and I am so ready get up. We flew about north from Dallas into the Great Lakes and then next to Iceland and then over European countries like Slovakia. Now, we are currently over Turkey.
We are so so close.
Over Turkey Picture
