Traveling to the United States on a business trip (1): Departure

After obtaining the visa, we will prepare everything. Some colleagues went to a business trip a year ago and said that the food of the US emperor was really bad (note that I didn't say the food here, and then you will understand why I didn't need it ), we recommend that you bring some noodles, rice or something in China, and some people also bring pickles or something, because the meat and seeds are checked out of Customs in the United States, so try not to bring them. At that time, I did not agree. I thought that I was also a person who went south and north. I didn't eat any bad food. So when I went out, I brought some pickles and bought a pair of cloth slippers, but I brought a lot of tea leaves.

Just starting a trip to China

At half past seven on October 11, March 9, China time, I arrived at the gate of the residential area and spent 150 yuan to go to Wuhan Tianhe airport. When I arrived at the airport, I joined another colleague in the company to change the boarding pass. When I checked my luggage, my luggage was only 10 kilograms, and my colleagues' luggage was overweight, fortunately, our staff said that the average weight of our two checked baggage was no more than 23 kilograms, so we did not receive the freight.

The flight was delayed when it took off in bad weather in Wuhan. It was supposed to be at Beijing airport, but the flight was delayed for more than an hour in Wuhan. When we arrived in Beijing, we encountered a strong wind, and the engine room door could not be connected to the boarding gate. After waiting for n more time, we finally had no way to get the checked luggage from the airport shuttle bus to the lobby, at this time, it is more than 2 o'clock. My colleagues in the United States said they would change their international flight tickets and pass the Customs five hours in advance, and our flight departure time was. Looking at the table, I felt a little worried. At noon, I went straight to Delta to change my boarding pass. Before changing the boarding pass, I moved my colleague into a box, transferred her heavy items to my box, and transferred my clothes and other light items to her suitcase, because international flights do not ship luggage on average.

After searching for a long time at the Beijing Airport, I did not find the Delta Air Lines service desk. When I asked the airport staff, I knew that I had to pass the airport customs first to change the boarding pass, and I handed my passport to the customs, it was easy, and I found a new boarding pass. After N long queues, it was troublesome to change the boarding pass for international flights, so it took nearly an hour to change the boarding pass. In China, the boarding pass is changed based on the ID card, but the boarding pass for international flights can only be a passport. I will check the page after the embassy visa is approved (see the figure in my last paper). After giving the passport, the staff will spend a few minutes, return the passport, and get out the ticket.

After getting the boarding pass, I went through the security check again. It was really troublesome for IT staff like ours to carry their laptops on a business trip. Every time they had to take out their laptops and scan them separately, then they had backpacks and jackets, the security check for international flights is more rigorous than that for domestic flights, but it will not be a problem if I try to scan anything. After the security check, I directly go to the boarding gate to wait for the boarding, so far it is a foot at the door of the country. For the first time I went abroad, I was always a little excited. I took the time to call my wife, sister, mom, and Dad to make them feel at ease.

12-hour international flights are really uncomfortable

I was shocked when I checked my flight reservation for the first time. The flight departure time was and the arrival time was. Isn't the whole trip 23 hours and 55 minutes? Later I learned that the departure time of an airplane is the departure time, and the arrival time is the destination time. The actual trip is 11 hours and 55 minutes, our flight will take nearly 12 hours to fly to Detroit, the city of cars in the United States. During the 12-hour flight, the plane will depart from Northeast China and pass through Russia to the island of koji, the white-line Strait, and then to Alaska in the United States. Then it enters Canada and then enters the United States from the Great Lakes area, arrive in Detroit, the city of cars.

The number of domestic flights for international flights is larger. Most of the domestic flights are 6 in each row, while the number of international flights is 9 in each row, and the size of large flights is also stable. However, 12 hours of sitting is indeed quite miserable, and this time is still the time for Chinese people to go to bed, the situation can be imagined. After arriving in Detroit, we stayed at the hotel for one night and flew to Denver, Colorado at the next day. If we slept on the plane, sleeping at night in Detroit is more painful, so we decided to try to sleep less on the plane, and then go to the hotel to sleep at the local time to adjust the clock in advance. Without books, you can't play with your cell phone. It's really painful. The only thing you can do is you can watch a fixed player in the seats of the front row and play movies, TV series, or documentaries without subtitles. On the plane, enter the i94 entry and exit records and the customs declaration form, because no seeds, agricultural products and meat are carried, and the US dollar and RMB on the body cannot exceed 10 thousand US dollars, therefore, you do not need to enter other forms.

On the plane, I had the first meal of the US emperor. My colleague asked for Beef rice and I needed chicken. I took it and saw that my colleague had some meals. I didn't have any meals in it, two pieces of chicken were mixed with vegetables. My colleague said that I was not easy to eat. I put my heart down on the dinner of the US emperor with contempt. I thought that you had to eat at least a meal. No rice was found here!

If it's okay, just watch and think about it. I found that the flight attendants of a nationality flight did not want to pay attention to the image in China. They had a big box of white hair, white hair, and a Chinese, I think this Chinese flight attendant may be considering that there will be Chinese who do not understand English on the plane. Ordinary English communication is limited by technology and almost no life. So when we meet the Chinese, we will use Mandarin to try our favorite drinks, when you meet a foreigner, you can only say "water"/"orange" for water or orange juice. In addition, we will see the front display, where we are now, and some flight parameters, such as flight height, speed, flight time, and off-Cabin temperature, we noticed that our flight was at a height of 100,000 meters. The flight speed was about 1000 km per hour, and the outside temperature was over 50 degrees below zero.

Initial entry to the US emperor

After a long torment, the plane finally arrived in Detroit. With excitement, we looked out the window and thought that there were high-rise buildings everywhere, and the result was disappointing. There was only a gray building, the vast majority are not high. I told a elder sister in the front row who went to the United States to visit the United States and studied in the United States that it is a bit like the Bali in Tianjin. The terrain is gentle, and most of the places are not desert grass or open space. It feels a little desolate, this is the legendary city of cars?

When I got off the plane, I got a luggage package and took it out of the customs with the completed form on the plane. Looking at the people around us, the two of us become foreigners. Americans are more honest. If we do not fill out the restricted or prohibited items in our form (we didn't bring them in fact), foreigners will not check them. Foreigners are really honest, it is said that my colleague did not specify the name when filling out the form with beef sauce, nor did the Foreigner Check it. When I took a few steps, I was stopped by a customs sister. I thought I was going to check our passport or something, so I handed the passport over. People didn't pick it up. First, I asked if we were Chinese, after receiving a positive answer, I asked if we were talking about Mandarin. I said yes. So let's help translate. There was an old Chinese lady with $5000 and $3000, the Customs sister asked us to help translate the money to the old lady to confirm whether there were more than 10 thousand US dollars in the yuan, US dollars and other currencies converted into US dollars, after receiving a negative answer, I asked the translation to the old lady to hear that she was trying her best to bring cash for safety in the United States. During this period, the old lady kept wandering, and she was not just afraid that she would still get used to wandering, the Customs sister asked us to translate it to the old lady. If the customs officers in tianchao are not more serious than the old lady, but they are responsible for the work of the US emperor. After the question was over, we had nothing to do, and then a channel to check the passport, foreigners asked me to submit the I-129s form, this form a total of three scattered in my thick paper, I had to open the binder and find it for him. He took it away and gave it to me with another one. I saw that my movements were not skillful, foreigners also helped sort out the pile of files that I had messed up by taking files. Thank you for leaving and then pick up the checked luggage. When I first arrived at the US emperor, I was not used to it. I always liked to ask the Chinese People (although I got to the US emperor, I was not used to speaking English when I was not used to seeing anyone). I often talked to people who thought they were East Asian faces for a long time, finally, I'm not Chinese (I'm not Chinese), and people are almost broken down. Well, just give me enough English. The first question I need to determine first is whether the next day I transferred from Detroit to the boarding building in Denver was here because the plane at was a little busy, if you miss your flight, you can leave it alone. I almost fainted again this time. I saw the service desk of the company that was boarding the plane the next day, among a large group of white-skinned and black-skinned service personnel, it is hard to see that the mm of a staff member on the counter is yellow skin, and he is habitually speaking Mandarin again, i'm notchinese (I'm not Chinese )". I have served you. I suggest you go to English. After inquiry, I was told that it was here, just go to the third floor. They also asked us if we needed to change the boarding pass and whether we needed to check the luggage. So we changed the boarding pass and checked the luggage on the spot. It would be much easier to go out tomorrow.

After the event, I went to the taxi hotel and got a taxi. After telling us the hotel address, the black taxi driver told us that the hotel had a free airport shuttle bus, just go there. When I walked all the way to ask, I saw the hotel car and went to the hotel when I got on the bus. After getting off the bus, I gave a tip for the first time in my life, for a total of 2 US dollars. There were no sandals and slippers in the hotel of the US emperor, so I had to take a bath with my feet alone. Then I made an appointment to get the shuttle bus from the airport the next day. I woke up at and watched the novels on my cell phone until dawn. When I had breakfast at and checked out at the front desk, I was particularly told that on August 1, March 9 was the start time of the renewal. At seven o'clock, the car arrived, and at the airport, it paid another two dollars.

The departure time on the ticket is and the arrival time is. I thought it would be more than an hour, and I don't think it would be too bad. The results showed that I was wrong again. In the evil us emperor, unlike the tianchao, there was only one Beijing time in China. The US emperor used several time zones, and Denver was two hours later than Detroit, I thought it was an hour, and it took another three hours! Old beauty is so evil!

We see hope

After arriving in Denver, I finally felt the hope was in sight. When I got off the plane, I found a place to pick up my luggage. This time I was dumpfounded. There were three zones A, B, and C. After a long time, I found the place where I picked up my luggage, find the luggage and go out to taxi. This is another black man. After the address of the destination hotel was told to the black man, he entered the navigation system and started his trip to coloradosprings (a city under Colorado Springs. The Desolation we see along the way reminds us of the cowboy movies in the western United States. The only thing that makes us feel gratified is that we can see blue sky and blue sky. It is estimated that there is less rainfall, and there is little cloud on the sky.

Our hotel is 305 rockrimmon blvdcolorado springs, CO 80919-2303, United States. It seems that some English words are not translated into Chinese, for example, checkin/checkout, which is used by source code management tools, this term will also be used during hotel check-in and check-out. Besides, there is a house in our room, and we are staying at the Hotel in Detroit, there is no cooking in the Detroit hotel, but there is another bathroom, kitchen area, laundry room, bedroom area, and a three-person sofa in addition to the hotel. For those who travel to the local area, it's nice to stay in this house and cook on your own.

In short, we have reached our destination.

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Zhou Jinqiao

2013-03-12 on Hyatt House coloradosprings5805 Delmonico drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA