Longest Wednesday Finally Over

Today is Thursday, January 9th, and yesterday, Wednesday January 8th, was the day we returned from Asia. Anytime you fly over the international dateline heading east, like we did, makes that specific day very long, as the time-warp sends you to the future going the other way. We skipped Christmas Day altogether, not existing for December 25th, leaving late the 24th and landing early on the 26th.

Coming back stretches the day as you catch up to your own past. Which boggles the mind.

Yesterday we woke up Da Nang, on the Central Coast of Vietnam, and flew to Saigon, which has been called Ho Chi Minh City for the last 39 years. From there we flew to Taipei in Taiwan, and then lasted the long stretch from Taipei to LAX, landing before 8pm last night. We left Taipei, though, at 11 pm on the 8th, flew through darkness and into sun, and through dusk and back to darkness and landed, technically three hours before we left.

I have plenty of things to say about Vietnam, Cambodia, and Lao, but right now I'm still decompressing and taking care of Long Beach business.

Here's a taste: New Orleans in a jungle kingdom--Phnom Penh, capitol of Cambodia: