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Posted at 6:04 pm on Friday, May 15, 2009, in Travels, and tagged amsterdam.
Sitting in the Amsterdam airport. Schiphol. Pronounced Skipel. People-watching. The flight was one of the better ones I’ve been on, except they served too much food. I never thought that that would be an issue, but apparently it can be. We have a four-hour layover, and no free wifi. Fifteen minutes costs three euros. I wouldn’t even be able to do anything productive until minute four or five. It is almost noon, and it feels like 3am. We have a two-hour flight to Warsaw, then a cab to the train station, then a three-hour train to Krakow.
I was able to sleep a few hours on the eleven-hour flight. As long as I can take my shoes off, and more importantly, go blind (what I refer to as taking my contacts off), I can pretty-much sleep anywhere. Blindness is the key. I couldn’t imagine being able to see perfect throughout the day. How could you sleep? When I’m falling asleep, and my contacts and glasses are off, and I half-open my eye, I can’t see a thing, only blurry figures. My eyes may not be perfect, but a blind world is perfect for sleeping. No distractions.
If I had bat-sighted eyes, I would be awake all night, watching the slightest of moves in the still of the night. This is the primary reason I do not consider opting for corrective eye surgery. The other is the dearth of knowledge on any long-term effects or complications. As they say, the jury is still out on that, and just like every other great American, I try to avoid jury duty whenever and however I can.
Note: I wrote this while off-line waiting at the Amsterdam airport. I was finally able to post it here on a free wifi connection at the Warsaw central train station.
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