Touchdown

We're here safe and sound. I have now officially seen both sides of the Pacific. Pictures to follow just as soon as I figure out this foreign internet thingy. (Dump trucks? Tubes? Dump trucks full of seaweed driving through tubes?)

Chapter 1

I'm sitting in the Hong Kong International Terminal, local time approximately 6:00AM, Sunday, July 27th. We've been traveling since 4PM on Friday, but that was Pacific time. For those keeping score, we're fifteen hours ahead (or nine hours back plus a day). We left the States at 1AM, and we flew through fourteen more hours of night. We arrived with the dawn.