Pilgrim in the Palace of Words by Glenn Dixon
Author:Glenn Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRV000000, TRV010000
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2009-11-20T05:00:00+00:00
The end of this particular story is that I spent only five or six hours in Auckland. The airline did indeed arrange for a much smaller plane to take us the six hours back to the Cook Islands. The weather had settled down by then, and after some twenty or so hours of back and forth over the whole Pacific, I eventually made it to Rarotonga.
The next morning, still a bit of a zombie from lack of sleep, I was walking along the beach, surveying the new place, when a guy sitting on a beach towel began to wave at me. “Hey!” he called. “Hey, you! Yes … you!”
I pointed at myself, and he nodded, waving at me to come over. “Listen,” he said when I got a bit closer, “you were on that plane yesterday, right?” He didn’t have to explain which plane he meant. I didn’t recognize him, though obviously he’d been on the plane, as well.
“Look at this,” he said, holding up the Cook Island Times. On the front page in bold type was: NEAR DISASTER AT AIRPORT. There was also a large photograph of our plane angling over the airport terminal. One of the wings, clearly, had just missed the edge of the roof by mere metres. Fire trucks and a couple of ambulances had been assembled on the runway, as well.
Shit! I thought.
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