Thursday I had myself a bit more together than I did on Wednesday. After a great breakfast with Jordan, I got myself on the subway and then a bus and headed down to the southern tip of Hong Kong Island, a place called Aberdeen. I can't exactly say that I got myself to the bus, because after getting off the subway, I asked a man where to find the bus station, and my particular bus route. He said he was going that way and I should follow him, and then he more or le...

Monday night, after he finished work, Jordan met me at my hotel. It was fantastic to see him! He took me to dinner (and paid for it!) at Tim Ho Wan, a dim sum restaurant and Hong Kong's only Michelin starred restaurant. We ordered way too much food for a ridiculously low price. The evening was delicious - the food, the surroundings, and mostly talking with Jordan. My two kids are among the funniest people I know. I've been interested in listening to Jordan's insi...

Fifteen hours is a long time to sit in coach! Since my flight departure time was 1:20am, and 15 hours later it would be 29 hours later somehow, and still morning, I worked out a strategy to adjust more quickly to the new time zone. I started two days early with naps that would begin and end strictly on schedule, and I planned to be awake for the first 5 hours of my flight. Which totally worked, for the first 15 minutes. So I landed at 5am, having napped on and of...