I was on a flight from ORD to NRT (where I am posting this right now), with final destination PEN. I boarded my flight at ORD at 11.59am Dec 31, so woud probably hit the international date line and hence new year's day probably about 14 or 15 hours of the first person in this world to hit the new year.

I thought the fact that the first person to hit NY's day would be somebody on a westward trip across the dateline amuses me .