Leaving America...

Thursday Jun 3 2008 @LAX

My Family!

Well its finally happening; Jessie and I managed to squeeze what would have been months of organization into about a month and a half to fit our timelines, and it worked! We are on our way to India! After some choked-up goodbyes (on all sides) we hopped on a plane bound for Hong Kong, some of my dad's sagely advice still ringing in my ears, "Sleep as much as you can, it'll make it easier to adjust."  Sound advice to be sure.  It did work better however, when I was younger: excitement about a trip would lead to a roller coaster of excitement and energy, and after an hour of frenzied madness, I would collapse into a heap of 10 year-old and sleep.  Not so much these days.  My age has brought along something others call "caution" if you are nice, "neurosis" if you're a little less kind when referring to my travel behavior.  This leads me to do a periodic check of all m important documents and run through all scenarios and situations in my mind.  This coupled with the crying babies the row in front of us and the turbulence that was on a timer for when dozing off started, and needless to say I was up the entire 16 hours.  This is not to say that I wasn't enjoying myself. Cathay Pacific (bless them) had provided a veritable carnival of entertainment, and I managed to blast through around 4 or 5 major movies, 8 to 10 sitcoms, several hours of trivia and language learning software, and 2 novels.  Not too shabby a use of time.

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Morgan of India, Esq. (reply) Sep 22, 2008 16:09 EST by young.douglas  Global Greetings Morgan, It is I, your second cousin Doug, checking in from Cambridge (MA). Finally found some time to read through your entire blog - nicely done! Greatly enjoyed hearing of your adventures and that you are well. Hope your travels will someday bring you to our (new) neck of the woods, Stacey and I would love to show you around... Happy Trails, Doug & ... show all

Beauty and Grace in the Boeing Reality... (reply) Sep 13, 2008 04:10 EST by annchenh  My goodness, Morgan-- what an intellectual and handsome looking family you have. Where did you find them...?

This is amazing. (reply) Jul 22, 2008 18:52 EST by nmansoor  I just read all eleven entries in one sitting. Keep writing these, because I can vicariously have an exciting summer through these blogs, haha.

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