New York, here we come!

On our way from Hong Kong to New York, Mt Fuji in Japan standing out plainly from the scattered cloud

Things sounded dodgy for landing in New York. After all the snow they'd had on Boxing Day, more was forecast with a similar intensity for the Wednesday of our arrival. Gulp! 15 hours is a LONG time in an aeroplane. Watched too many movies and ate some very good food. Again, Cathay Pacific has to be the best. Couldn't fault anything about the flight, the staff, the food, the service...the works.

Hours of flying over Canada and America showed snow-covered country for as far as you could see

The most amazing thing about this leg of the journey was the amount of snow across southern Canada and northern America. For hours the country was covered in snow. There wasn't a cloud to be seen. Just hundreds of kilometres of snow-covered country with tiny dots of buildings, half frozen lakes and roads often half covered in snow. I got into trouble for having the blind up on our porthole! Well, not really. I was asked to put it down as people were asleep. It occurred to me that if they were asleep they wouldn't know the blind was up!! Ho hum! It had been fun watching the incredible sight of so much snow.

Even the beach was covered in snow as we circled to land at JFK airport at New York