Travel diary, day 0

[xuenay]

My previously announced departure to the US got a bit delayed, but now it's finally going to happen. Tomorrow's the day. My flight will depart the Helsinki-Vantaa airport at 7:35 AM. Change of plane at Paris-Charles de Gaulle, then it's a straight flight all the way to San Fransisco. Total duration, 16 hours. Matters aren't helped by the fact that if I want to be on the airport in time, I need to take a bus that leaves at 5 AM.

It's a strange feeling, looking around and knowing that I won't be seeing this place for four months. I can't help but feeling that it'll be a kind of a death and rebirth; I'll leave where and what I am now. One doesn't just spend four whole months in an entirely different place and remain unchanged. When I come back, I'll be a new person, hopefully for the better.

I should probably be getting to bed, but a part of me wants to remain awake and savor the last hours of my old life while it still can.

Comments

[chewi.livejournal.com]

I too will be travelling tomorrow but only for 6 hours, not 16. Probably not quite so life-changing either. Bon voyage. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Bon voyage, indeed - and best of luck at the SIAI!

FrF
(A reader of Less Wrong)

[androniar.livejournal.com]

Enjoy your travel. I'll keep following this, for I want to know how are you doing and so. Among all the people I know I guess you are one of those who has best chances to realize your own changing at the same time when it's taking place, so it would be intresting to know how you feel you have changed.

(I have to admit, my English isn't so good an hour after the midnight, but nevermind. :P)

[ferrouswheel.livejournal.com]

Have fun, SF is a great place and I treasure my 3 month stay there in 2008. ;-)

[aerothorn.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, the other disturbingly intelligent science person I know lives in San Francisco.

Last thing I knew, she was developing a cure for rabies. At the age of 18. And now she's specializing in astrobiology...