A very long day flying from Manila to Jakarta. My Actifit Report Card: January 17 2026

That's me at the airport and I wasn't really looking forward to it.

Why wasn't I looking forward to it? The airport was super busy.

Ahh... But my day started a lot earlier than that. Unfortunately I was jet lagged so I woke up at 3:30am. Far too early to get up but if that's all the sleep I can get what else can I do? I just got up, got my paperwork ready for the airplane, cleaned up the hotel room, packed all my baggage and then at first light I decided to go for a walk.

Unfortunately, I had walked around all the roads in Resort World in Manila so I figured I'd take a different road. Wow. What a boring road! After a morning walk it was time to try and get some breakfast. Unfortunately, with the previous day power outage I had very little food in the hotel. No more eggs to make an omelette (sigh) and I'm trying really hard to eat responsibly so I can lose weight.

That left me trying to eat healthy from 7/11 fare. Harder than it looks. In Japan its easy with lots of healthy food at the 7/11, in Manila? Not so much.

So... This was breakfast.

Better than nothing I suppose.

12:00pm comes around and its checkout time. Checked out and then walked to the airport (as you saw above). It took a fair amount of time to get through processing but eventually I got that taken care of. Unfortunately I learned a lesson about currency exchange from "minor" currencies.

Peso to Rupiah is not a good exchange rate.

Unfortunately my flight wasn't scheduled to leave until 7:20pm. With that much time to kill I decided to use up one of my crypto.com free lounge visits :) ... So if you read my reports on getting income from crypto.com and investing it on HIVE...well, the same card lets me stay in a nice lounge for 3 hours and get free food.

They have lots of good stuff in the lounge and normally I'd be hitting up the free ice cream and soda. However, again, I'm trying to eat responsibly :(

After my 3 hours was up (very sad) I had to walk to the gate. The gate was on the entire opposite end of the airport and that meant a 15 minute walk. Get there and watch some anime. So glad the airport has free WIFI. Unfortunately I almost missed the fact that they switched gates for the flight.

6:50PM comes and I'm finally about to board the plane! Hooray! But the runway for the airplane was broken so we had to walk to the airplane and walk up the stairs.

And I had to take this picture for my friend Doug. It is the hotel he will be staying at when he goes to the Philippines and he asked "How close is the hotel to the airport". Well this photo should let him know with absolute certainty ... Hahahaha

As for the flight.

It was a special kind of torture.

I got the middle seat which is never a good sign.

I couldn't find the recline button so I asked the stewardess where it was.... Only to be informed that this flight doesn't have reclining seats. Then the plane hit turbulence for much of the flight.

So.... Can't lean left, can't lean right, can't move my legs, cant recline the chain, can't even remove the seatbelt for 4 hours.

When I finally land in Jakarta? Things actually go very smoothly. I had my VISA, I had my paperwork, I breezed through every checkpoint... Except the one where I had to remove my glasses and look at a camera...except without glasses I couldn't see the camera. :D That was awkward when I heard my name called with instructions to move left and move up over the loudspeaker ....

A short while later I'm standing at the location above. I hadn't slept for 20 hours and wes really hoping that the airport shuttle picked me up soon.

It took a little longer than I would have liked but they needed me to go to a different pickup area. Eventually the driver rescued me and I got to the hotel.

Then....
..... I messaged my wife I was okay and promptly went to bed.

Very very long day :)

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