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  Taipei, Taiwan
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

I found a free Internet cafe in the airport in Taipei, so I figured I'd kill a little bit of my layover and drop a quick note to let you know that I've arrived safely.  Surprisingly the flight here was really great.  I got a window seat, and the middle seat next to me was empty.  We had a meal just after take off, then I took my sleeping pill and when I woke up 9 hours had gone by! Only 5 more to go!  So I took another nap, and woke up 2 hours later.  I stayed awake for the last three hours of the flight, had another meal, watched a little TV and here I am.  The whole thing was much easier than I had prepped myself for. 

Interestingly, when the breakfast cart came around the choices were Chinese Kim-Chi, or almonds.  Um, what?   I thought Kim-Chi (which I'm probably miss-spelling) was Korean, and a dinner food.  Huh?  First little taste of culture shock I guess, just then a second stewardess came by, overheard my confusion and offered me eggs and coffee *sigh*

I'm not sure if you guys know what Kim-Chi is, but I was introduced to it when I worked at Abovehealth (an Asian owned/staffed company) Kim-Chi is fermented (read: left in a barrel to rot for a month) cabbage that's served over porridge.  Dad, remember that awful smelling hash you used to cook for breakfast, so bad I had to eat my breakfast in the dining room?  Well, it was kinda like that, only trapped on a plane.  The guy next to me was eating it, I tried not to watch.  Ok, enough about that...

I'm off to kill the next hour in duty-free, and then back onto another plane for 5 hours to get to Jakarta!  Yay!  I'll drop a line when I get there, so you know I'm cool.  Then I'm off to sleep in my nice king sized bed for 2 days to recover!  (But I feel really great, so maybe I'll just take a nap/shower and hit the city!)  Until then....

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