★ Traveling to Hong Kong ★

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Hello again angels! ꒰ᐢ. .ᐢ꒱₊˚⊹ This is will be an overdue post from the 2024 backlog;; The title already gives it away, I traveled to Asia for the first time last November!!  Traveling to Hong Kong was an unbelievably exciting and nerve-wrecking experience! I still can’t believe happened!! I didn’t have opportunities to travel, even in adulthood, and my worldwide bandwidth only stretched between my home in America and my family’s house in Guatemala. Needless to say, this trip was incredible! Before I move on I want to give a huge shout out to my dear friend Kat who invited me to go with her and share her homecoming with me! I’m eternally grateful to had been given the chance

Airline angels ready for takeoff (>ᴗ•) !

Traveling was exhausting but that was to be expected. When Kat proposed we go together to Hong Kong, the first thing that concerned me was the time I would need to spend in a plane to go back and forth. We would first need to travel to California for six hours before rushing onto another plane to our final destination which lasted sixteen hours. That’s twenty-one hours in total! My longest plane ride up to that point was two hours which is a quick nap and then you’re there. I was lucky to have Kat next to me during our first flight. It felt like a “tutorial” of what was to come. We watched movies and I listened to her advice when she’d suggest I move around the cabin to stretch my legs and how it was good practice to get over my fear of walking around a plane while it’s in motion. We were lucky that the flight attendants were super cool and interesting to talk to!

We even got free wine ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )

When we landed in San Francisco we had no time to dilly-dally. After helping an older lady who thanked us by buying us dinner, we immediately boarded our next flight. Unfortunately, we weren’t seated next to each other   It’s not that I’m scared of heights in the way where I think the plane is going to crash - I guess you can say it’s a type of claustrophobia where I don’t like being stuck in a limited space, especially when I can’t just walk away from it whenever. I did well for the most part but at the twelfth hour I felt like I was losing it. The cabin fever was getting to me. I kept fidgeting with the interactive map at the back of the headrest from the seat in front of me and followed Kat to do some laps between the aisles. The dude sitting next to me started to talk to me about his own travels which made time go by faster and his unique perspectives kept my brain busy. I fell asleep one last time and woke up to my other seat neighbor opening the window to see the sun rising over the South China Sea.

I was lucky to watch this beautiful sunrise! ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩‧₊ 

That’s it for this entry! I’ve decided it would be best to divide my travels into separate logs. Thank you again for reading! See you next time!