Jerry writes

So here we are cruising along high over the Pacific on our ten hour daytime journey to Seoul to connect for our eight hour journey to Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. We depart at 11:10 a.m. Sunday Honolulu time and are due to arrive in Seoul at 4:40 p.m. local time on Monday (we cross the international date line and Bali at 12:05 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The time difference between Seoul and Honolulu is five hours - another hour to Bali.

All this translates to the fact that we are leaving in the daytime, chasing the sun, and landing in daylight. So why, three hours into the flight do we and our 450 fellow travelers have the shades closed and why is virtually everyone trying to sleep (except for one nutty guy stabbing away at his keyboard). Could be it was the delicious, all carb, Bibimbap lunch that came with detailed directions:

and a tube of hot sauce?

Could it be this is the Korean Airlines flight attendants’ way of getting a little down time while we all sleep – the view of our friend Patty, a former flight attendant, when I told her of a similar evente on 16 hour flights to India. In any event, it’s odd to be flying over the Pacific in broad daylight in an almost completely dark plane and virtually everyone trying to sleep. If someone non-conformist didn’t every once in awhile have the utter nerve to open the shade to look out and blast us with sunlight, you would think it was the middle of the night. The KAL flight attendants are different. They are all perky, heavily made up, lithe, attractive young women who smile incessantly and bow to you when you get on the aircraft or they hand you water or do anything else for you.

Seoul’s Inchon airport is very modern and contrasts dramatically with the pictures one has of the rural Korean landscape. Quick connection there and on to Bali – arriving at just after midnight.

And suddenly it's Tuesday....

We finally got to bed at 2:15 in what they call a villa with its own small pool, outdoor shower, lounge area and anything else you could need. We thought we would sleep until 7:30 a.m. Not so. The body clocks had us up at 6 . . . .