• 40 hour day in the middle of nowhere

    January 8, 2023, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    Today and tomorrow, we travel from New Zealand to Chile. We arrive 6 hours before we left, but we flew for 10 hours. Are you with me? It's tomorrow now where we left, but it's the day we left here. Confused? Our brains and body clocks are.

    Latam flight LAN800 is the only commercial flight across the Southern Pacific, It's by far the remotest flight in the world. For 10 hours, no land below us, no island nearby .

    We have arrived safely, and after the relative calm, cleanliness, and order of Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, we are ready for a culture shock, but boy, are we tired.
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