U2360° TOUR Leg 3: 2011   Honolulu-San Francisco.  It was an
early start, but I made it to the airport with a dozen or so
other crew members who had flights around the same time as me.
Im going to San Francisco for a while before going home, so my
flights only four hours or so, whilst others will be spending
days in the air to get to far corners of this planet and
possibly other ones.  Once again it seemed like everyone on the
plane had been at the show so U2 was the general subject of
background conversation. One woman in particular, across the
aisle from me, spent the entire flight re-living her concert
experience ('and then Bono went down the ramp, so everyone went
to the right, but I noticed that Adam had gone to the left, so
I. etc'.) Sometimes its humbling to realise the degree to which
these shows can provide such life highlights for so many people;
even a show that left me feeling frustrated and grumpy. I pulled
my hood up and had a moment of quiet appreciation. This has been
a fantastic little run, p