So this morning I head out of my hotel around 5am to try and catch a 5:18 train at Namba station. When I reached one of the station doors, it was locked. This was the case with several others. I ran into two couples that were also tryin to find an entrance (they all were using google maps like I was to schedule their route to the airport).

Finally, I ran into a man who knew an entrance that was open, and even was kind enough to walk me to it! I have to say, there are awesome ppl in this world.

I did miss the train I wanted to take, but I was able to find one that would get me to the airport at 6:28 (my flight is 8:20).

Now after arriving at the airport, there were several obstacles. One of them is that after the train ride, the terminal my plane was leaving at was an additional 10 minute bus ride. The second obstacle is that I couldn’t check into my flight using Peach’s automated terminal since my name didn’t match. The third obstacle is that the line to see a Peach representative was the same line as the check in baggage line, which took me about an additional 25 minutes. After finally seeing a representative, I find out that the total baggage wait (both personal item and carry on luggage) can’t exceed 10kg. WTF. I basically had to pay 38,000 to check in my carry on. At this point it was 7:20. The last obstacle was security, where they wouldn’t let me enter security screening until after 7:30 (but then they realized the security line was empty, so they decided to let me in). At least exiting immigration was easy.

Now off to HKG!