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We are finally home after spending 48 hours in airports and planes. The flight home was quite a harrowing experience and an adventure in itself since we had 4 connecting flights before reaching LAX, our final destination.

During the Dubai--> San Francisco plane portion of the trip, an older man made the mistake of sneaking a smoke in the bathroom. Understandably, if you have any sort of chronic addiction, a 17 hour flight will get the best of you. Needless to say, it didn't turn out too favorably for this old guy because he didn't quite understand English, none of the attendants could speak his language, so no one could convey to him that smoking had been forbidden on plane rides since the 80s. He started to cause quite a scene. so along with the burly male flight attendants, the plane marshal was summoned and the man was forcefully handcuffed to his seat. For the remaining 6 hours of the flight, he would get hysterical and at some point started spitting on his neighbors and plane officials, so they muzzled him with a face mask and he spent the rest of the flight sandwiched between the marshal and the male attendants. When we landed, ground officers came onboard to arrest him before the rest of us could deplane. Entertaining? Yes. Appreciated? No.

We then missed our connecting flight from San Francisco--> LAX because we spent too much time waiting for our backpacks,one of which never showed up and is currently still missing. Thankfully we were put on another flight 2 hours later but after we finally boarded, the brakes were problematic so everyone had to deplane and wait for another plane.

I could definetely do without seeing the inside of a plane/airport for a while, thank you very much.

Anyways, we are home and happy to exploit the comforts of a westernized country.
Thanks for reading! Jason has posted our pics at www.flickr.com/photos/ruchbum