I've been away for close to three weeks and this is my first post. Oh no, don't worry your not going to forced to read through three weeks of my ramblings in one sitting. I'll get my posts up to date over the next few weeks.

I'm typing this in Chaing Mai Thailand at an internet shop, which is slow going but next week I'll have my laptop to work on again in my room in Saigon.

Trying to do my share for the green effort, on 4/7/08 took Amtrak from Sacramento to Richmond and then the BART to SFO . Darn cheap, Amtrak's Capital corridor train cost $20.00 less my senior discount = $16.00 and Bart was only a couple bucks on top of that. Felt kind of dumb lugging all my luggage around but other that that it was a nice ride especially on Amtrak. Think it took around 2 hours plus.

The flight to Hong Kong, "can you say cramped" and so many non English speaking Chinese along with a bazillion kids.

People always ask - "OK, so how long is that light across the pacific" this time I paid attention and wrote it down. The flight was 13 hours and 56 minutes and it's 6,921 miles that's from SFO to Hong Kong international.