Flying, flying…Sydney International…massive queue for my Air Canada flight…annoying Americans (not Canadians)speaking too fast and complaining loudly about everything.Flying, flying, flying, flying… only been travelling for 3 hours…getting a serious case of sore bum now…pass over New Caledonia…snooze…eat…movie…pee…snooze…eat…movie…pee…snooze…eat…movie…pee…Uh oh, just had my first ever claustrophobic twinge.Im trapped in a piece of machinery flying at 900km per hour, over the middle of the widest ocean on earth, with nearest land (if you call pacific islands land) 2000km in every direction.It would take just a tiny stress fracture of a wing or a spark in a fuel tank to make me a permanent watery resident (fish food! I like that thought ;o) of one of the remotest locations on earth. C'est la vie, que sera, sera (that's life, whatever will be, will be).Apart from that momentary twinge of terror,the flight is THE MOST boring, uncomfortable, and frustrating thing I have ever done!The terror spices it up for a second and then it becomes dull again and I find myself wishing for turbulence, an altercation between the stewards and the annoying Americans, anything to relieve the mind-numbing monotony.Snooze…eat…movie…pee…finally, after 12 hours, we land at Honolulu, Hawaii to be met by the broad smile of the locals and the scowls and suspicion of the U.S. immigration officials.Ok, so I've been through two security scans already but they wernt on US territory and Honolulu airport is so badly designed that you have to walk past the unguarded front door (awash with hot, humid air) to make it to the transit lounge for the next flight…but first you have to make it through the toughest security scan so far."Place all laptops, mobile phone, ipods, any recording or filming equipment, anything with data storage capacity in SEPARATE trays for scanning.Failure to do so with result in a thorough personal search"."Take off jackets and empty pockets, remove shoes belts, remove your shoes.Faliure to do so will result in a thorough personal search"."Remove all metallic objects from your possession.A scanner alarm WILL result in a thorough personal search".Ah, friendly Honolulu!