Copenhagen & Oresund Sweden is Our Next Destination

I am a bit nervous and scattered. That's because ahead of me is a 4-hour drive to Newark Airport, then a 5:50 pm flight on SAS to Copenhagen. Paul Shoul and I are going on a trip that is billed as "A Thousand Year Odyssey," it will include the Danish city and then a trip over a very long bridge to the Oresund region of Sweden.

We will see ancient Viking boats, and enjoy the 24-hour sun of summer in Sweden. It's a short trip, we fly back Sunday. But it is always taxing and anxiety filled when I have to depart in the morning of a trip. So many things to wonder about. So many things I gotta do.

But when we sit back on the plane and sip white wine, and laugh about our fortune of being on another junket to a strange and marvelous place, we'll be relaxed and begin to unwind. Then we'll begin blogging, and note-taking, and pretty soon we'll be able to share our trip with thousands of others who tag along reading the blogs or read the articles on the website. Good bye soggy rainy New England--hello Little Mermaid!

Watching the Planes and the People Down Below

We are sitting in Copenhagen's airport with our flight delayed two hours. No announcement told us, we just learned this by overhearing another passenger, then seeing it for ourselves on the board. Thanks a lot! I always like to watch the planes come and go and see what the workers do down there. I remember as a kid I always thought it would be fun to work a job like that and drive those cool little baggage trains and loading vehicles.

I watched a man drag a huge Airbus in with a vehicle that clamps the front wheel and pulls the plane. Delicately, he maneuvered the plane's wheel right into the place between two painted lines. Then a woman in a reflective jacket chucked a few knapsacks down a stairway...and some of the newspapers flew loose. I watched as the papers blew away in the wind, and she had to run after them. Then a man emerged from the vehicle that pulls the plane...and two women security guards frisked him.

We have wireless access here in the terminal, and since this wait is without decent newspapers, restaurants or even CNN on TV, I guess we'll splurge and hook up. The man next to me used a 3G wireless access that uses a tiny cellphone signal to get the 'Net. Much better, no lousy fees, and the service is faster. Coming here made us realize how backward our cellphone service is, we don't have even 1G yet.