Day 18

Spooning wasn't too bad, Juan said I would have to get used to it as we would have to preserve body heat during the cold nights on our trek. It might have been more comfortable but he insisted in sleeping in the nude and appeared to have brought one of the religious artifacts into the bed with him and it spent most of the night poking in my back!

DJ Kirkby was asking about my arrest and I'll come to that soon enough but I want to go through things in order so I need to start with the plane journey from London to New york.

When we boarded the plane Juan was quite drunk but had calmed down a lot. I think he understood there was a chance of him getting thrown off the plane before we took off if he carried on making a nuisance of himself. He was kind enough to give me the window seat and then tucked in beside me, strapped himself in and before we were airborne was asleep.

Although I kept trying to sit him upright his head seemed to gravitate to my lap and he left a large pool of drool next to my crotch. The nice cabin assistant (Maurice) pointed this out with a smile, he was very friendly. When Juan woke up he and Maurice got on like a house on fire. They seemed to talk in code or something for example; when we were given snacks with a drink Juan joked about not choking on Maurice's' nuts (I didn't get it) and every time they mentioned something called the mile high club that caused an uproar. It was shortly after this the commotion started.

Juan had gone to the toilet and there must have been some sort of problem because Maurice had to go in with him to help sort it out, maybe the flusher stuck. All the time they were in there, and it was quite a while, a older plump lady was waiting outside. She must have been getting desperate for the toilet as she started pounding on the door. Everybody was looking and could hear them laughing and joking from inside.

When they finally came out the lady shouted and swore at them and Maurice was taken to a different part of the plane, Juan was escorted back to his seat and told not to move from there and promptly fell back to sleep.

The attitude towards us was very frosty for the rest of the journey but not as frosty as the reception I received when I arrived in New York. I'll have to tell you about that tomorrow because I'm going outside now for a swim.