Chapter Seven
Aboard their Antonov, almost everyone slept on the first leg from Portland to Hawaii—everyone except Gordon.
The Antonov had two pressurized cabins tucked high in the fuselage. A small one forward of the wings for the pilots and the larger passenger cabin aft of the wing.
The latter was split into two sections. The forward part, probably for the stewardesses when there were any, had two sets of three lumpy seats facing either side of a small table, making it impossible to stretch out your legs without tangling with someone else’s. The only saving grace on the long flight was that there were two of these booth setups and they only had seven people on this plane. The aft part was a long section of regular airplane seating that could take eighty people. However, any padding i
