Five-and-a-half hours later, I arrived in Vancouver to find Grant awaiting me with an unfurled Canadian flag and a box of TimBits, Tim Horton's answer to the Munchkin.
I always fly to countries with zero pre-arranged plans. It's hard enough for me to figure out what country I want to go ahead of time, never mind trying to decide on a city or hotel!
As soon as I made it through immigration, I bought another ticket to take a regional flight down to Placenia, a sleepy beach town about 90 air-miles south of Belize City.
Made it back to NYC just in time to catch the sunset. Thanks so much for inviting me, guys! I had a great time, despite having to find out that I am a huge pussy!
Seventeen hours later we arrived in Hong Kong and went to a restaurant where we got to watch the sun rise behind the mountains that ring the airport tarmac.
After we ate, we walked around the terminal a bit and looked at some ceremonial African clothing they had on display at a big exhibit. This is basically where the boogey man came from.
Mike took this great photo of us with some of the Cathay Pacific flight attendants, then we said goodbye and headed to the gate. Thanks so much for coming out to see us off, Mike!
We weren't sure if we were going to see him or not, but after we got off the plane, we heard my name being called over the public address. First time I'd ever been summoned to a white courtesy telephone! Haha.
Despite having severely injured her ankle at my company's holiday party the previous week, Meredith insisted her ankle was fine, and elected to leave her crutches at our place and packed super-light with just one bag.
...gets a THUMBS DOWN from Meredith (he said meta-ironically through a poorly framed and out-of-focus digital picture he'd carelessly shot from the hip).
