Mexico

A 15-hour flight with multiple transfers.

On the intercontinental flight, there was an LCD display with a tethered remote. Couldn't wait to try that. Selected flight tracking from the menu, after which, the device started loading some kind of configuration from somewhere. This got stuck on 93%. Pressed some random buttons. It started again, and got stuck at 93% once again. Anyway, the plane electrical system experienced a hiccup at some point, after which the device actually showed the flight tracking info. After some time I tried to go back to the main menu. Tried again, then again and again. Tried focusing on the system to acquire a feeling of it. Then tried again by forcing it with pk ("sudo"-like). The menu popped up but stuff looked rather glitchy. Selected "return to main menu" or somesuch, and pressed "Ok". Well .. nope. Everything went blank and didn't respond to my random combination of button presses, for perhaps an hour. Then suddenly it did. Low and behold, the familiar gif of a smiling lady booted up. But in false colors. Apparently the device was working again, except for the display colors (looked like 16 colors instead of 8-bit). Yup, probably technology from the last century.

Regardless, that was interesting geisting.

My intuition for mapless orientation in unknown surroundings didn't work, and I was mislead twice. Once in Tallinn, and once in Guadalajara.