Back to the Future

35 hours down 3.5 to go.
That International Date Line crossing is always a little bit weird. There you are traveling backwards and backwards and backwards with the time getting earlier and earlier and earlier and then WHAM! you shoot forward into tomorrow. So now it's Thanksgiving here but not yet where people actually celebrate Thanksgiving.
Meanwhile, sitting here in the Cathay Pacific First Class Lounge in Hong Kong. Have about 30 minutes before our final leg to Ho Chi Minh City so took a quick shower....bless these lounges (how many times do I say that every trip?), a cup of coffee and then we'll be off.
For future reference I may need to start taking drugs to sleep. Slept only fitfully and probably less than 3 hours straight from JFK to Vancouver and then only an hour at a stretch for maybe 4 hours total spaced out during the 14 hours to Hong Kong. Michael reminded me that the last time we flew to Hong Kong was from LAX 10 years ago on our way to China and that was coach and he was the age I am now so he's thinking we should start preserving our frequent flier miles and start flying coach again. HA! We'll see how he feels once the rummy-ness wears off.
But it was lovely (after hours or what seemed like days of darkness) to see the sun rise from the other side of the Pacific Ocean as we came into Hong Kong this morning. Stunning.