December 04, 2003

traveling to tommorow

"okay, so remember. NO TAXIS." he said.

The TVs in Chicago O'Hare were blaring Opera Winfrey loud enough to drown out the both the trilingual airport announcements and our cell phone conversation.

"Got it. I won't use the taxis." i replied.

Josh Davis was explaining to me the pitfalls of public transportation in Tokyo. Leanne was eating a ham and cheese sandwich, while talking to her father on her phone. Opera Winfrey was discussing interior decorating. 4 hours ago i was jogging through times square. 4 hours from then i was to be 8 hours in the future.

Sitting at the gate, i looked out the wall of glass at the sunrise and the largest piece of mechanical equipment i had ever seen or was about to ride in. Leanne was doing calisthenics. The 777 sat fat on the tarmac like red white and blue balloon that was about to be tied into a datchund, or some other domestic animal at a 5th grade birthday party by some white faced clown.

Only later, - or earlier - depending on which face of the flight attendant's watch i read, did i try to understand my present situation, and the events leading up to it. The two-faced watch placed lunch with a smile on Leanne's tray table. She looked the tray of food divided into modular white plastic portions like space shuttle cubby holes and smiled. if nothing else, I was treating her to a steak dinner and her first ride in a Rolls Royce. Or at least my first ride in one. The turbines seared through the sub-zero Siberain jet stream as I tried to retrace the chain of events that led to sitting in Leanne's closet, otherwise known as aisle 24 on flight 153, over the Bering Strait. i watched as she dug into one of her bags on the floor and pulled out a 1 gallon zip lock bag with a puddle of balsamic vinegar in the bottom of it, and promptly poured it over her salad in it's white plastic container. I watched the scrolling japanese script on the LCD screen in the back of the headrest in front of me. i watched the man at the end of the aisle try real hard keep his head above his shoulders as the classical music from station 1 on the armrest phone jack played out of the headphones hanging around his wobbling neck. i watched the sun out the crack in the window shade as it refused to set, and instead, followed me around the northern hemisphere.

There is a lot to see. and as Leanne ate her salad and the man at the end of aisle fought off gravity, i realized that i am seeing it. i realized i am seeing more that i expected, with people i never expected, and in places i never expected. and as Leanne prepared our self test of Japanese currency and common phrases, i wondered why she liked vinegar so much. i wondered what time it was. i wondered why taxis were so expensive in Tokyo. i wondered what in this world i was going to see next.

In a strangley comforting way, i know i will never be able to know all those answers. i will always be asking questions, and i will always be far more aware of what i don't know than what i do.

Posted by Todd Roeth at December 4, 2003 08:13 AM
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