Finally made it to Maui!

What a journey! Everything went off without a hitch until an hour before departing Tokyo to Honolulu. Engine problem with the 747; the staff at the lounge said no decision had been made to cancel or not; but I noticed there were passengers switching the flight already; but the staff kept telling us to wait. BS. So, I found a more senior staff, made her did all my routing changing WHILE I WAITED. I knew I wouldn't have time to catch my Maui connecting from Honolulu but that senior staff would not change my flight. Well, I was one step closer to Hawaii, once I got there, I could try something else. So, we took off at 9pm Tokyo time; man, the supper was awesome; one of the best meal I ever had on an airplane and from NW!!!! Nah, just the Japanese efficiency and perfection. I had a Japanese lunch box. Nice. Just right, no grease, none of those heavy sit in the bottom of your stomach feeling. Even the vegetarian meal was good.

Got to Honolulu, stupid logistic process at the airport; avoid clearing immigration there. Dumb! The Wiki took only one plane load of passengers at a time; so we waited and waited.... Then waited some more in immigration. Audrey zipped thru and we Canadians waited over 30+ minutes. Got to Hawaiian Airlines, we were penalized US$25.00 per person to get on the next flight. Even though NW delayed the flight. So, we were in no man's land! I will get the US$100 back from NW!

Because of the change of flight, our boarding pass had "SSSS" on it; this means. Shit, shit, shit, shit! We had to get 2ndary security check on all our bags! Talk about stupidity! The four Shits were because the boarding pass is a changed one so the computer "thought" we only had one way ticket to Maui! Now, remember a while back I mentioned something about a security company doing a $500,000 to do technological improvement on speeding people thru the security line. Making the computer software printing the correct four Shits would be a good start! We us four practically tied up 4 staff just for us! And also, get the damn long table where you take the trays for your items to line up to the X-ray machines. You had to hand carry over a disjointed gap.

That ladies and gentlemen, was another of my flying experience under the "security" blanket.