Tokyo – San Francisco (second leg)

NRT-SFO flight (9 hours)
This flight was on an older 747 which, in stark opposition to the 777 I flew westbound, had no power outlets by the seats and no seatback entertainment system (and only one third of economy was economy plus). Three and a half movies were shown on the overhead monitors (they started the fourth one too late to finish). I enjoyed Kung Fu Panda 2 and Midnight in Paris which were the only ones I watched, as I took a sleeping pill after dinner with wine and actually managed 5 fairly solid hours of sleep in my window seat I even slept through breakfast :-(
Surprisingly I didn’t feel chilled (barefoot, shorts, no sweater).
I did arrive in San Francisco at 9am feeling a little refreshed.

SFO airport
I used the global entry kiosk at SFO to bypass the immigration line (and the questioning by a customs officer), which got me to the baggage carousel quickly so that I could wait. Of course my bags were one of the last ones off (it didn’t help that I didn’t get a “priority” sticker on it like should have been done at checkin).

I had to clear customs and re-check the bags, after which I quickly went into the Red Carpet Club (I had received a status “domestic” upgrade on this international flight) for a coffee with Bailey’s and as light breakfast (half-size yoghurt, a banana, and 3/4 of a toasted bagel with cream cheese as the other 1/4 flopped onto the floor when I was separating the bagel halves for toasting duty).

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