We’re at Hong Kong airport now (they have free WIFI unlike North American airports), with another 3 or 4 hours left before we’re finished the in-transit mode. After everything is said and done, we would have spent 30 hours “in-transit”; from leaving home at 7 in the morning to checking into our Taipei hotel at around 1AM two days later!
Our flight from EWR to HKG took some 15 hours, which is a really long time. I don’t remember the Japan flight being that long and boring (although we flew from Vancouver). They had the same in-flight entertainment system they had on the LAN Airlines flight, but I didn’t want to spend my time staring at a small screen and drying out my eyes.
So it was quite boring; there’s only so much sleep one can do after sleeping for the night before the flights.