"The saying, 'Getting there is half the fun' became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines." -Henry Tillman

6-21-04 (copied from notebook)
My adventure began this morning at about 4:15 a.m., after roughly an hour and a half of sleep. The first 2 legs of my trip were pretty much uneventful; on the Huntsville-Dallas leg I was able to sleep a little, and an aisle seat and in-flight movie helped on the longer flight to Los Angeles. Now for the 19-hour flight...
I met a girl in LA who's going to study at the same university in Beijing that I'll be at. Patty's parents are Chinese, but she doesn't speak Chinese, so she's going to try and learn this summer. We