Somewhere Over The Pacific I always wanted to start of with an evocative dateline, full of the mystery and intrigue of travel. However, this trip is starting ought to be one of slapstick and misdirection. Several months ago, when planning this trip, I booked us on connecting flights Chicago-Maui, because the nonstops were about $1300 each and connections on American via Dallas were about $900 or so. I didn’t want the early set of connecting flights because the time in Dallas was too short; also the fare was lower. Who knew Texas, and indeed 49 out of 50 states would…