Carry on only and backups.

I've gotten kicked to the curb a couple times. Once I tried to tag along with my wife who was working an SFO-LIH flight. flight filled up, door closed. I admitted defeat and flew back to SAN. I tagged along to Japan with her...Well, I tried to join her SFO-NGO (Nagoya) flight. It looked bad, so I flew SFO-KIX and took a train to Nagoya. On the way back, the KIX-SFO flight filled up at the last minute (Olympian Carl Lewis took the last first class seat). I found internet access, flew KIX to HNL, bought a ticket for Hawaiin Air, crossed fingers, and got on a HNL-SFO flight. On a Sunday even. OH yeah...My watch was way off and I almost missed the flight, thinking that I had more time to kill than I really did. HaHa, that would have been funny. NOT!