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July 1, 2013
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Monday 3 June. As promised, we had an early start today. (Tomorrow’s will be even earlier.) We met in the lobby at the appointed time of 07:30 and tromped around the corner as a troupe to grab some breakfast at …
July 1, 2013
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Sunday 2 June. Roughly 22 hours after my first flight departed Dulles, I alit in Beijing and it was Sunday morning. Think about this for a minute: I left Washington between 20:30 and 21:00 Friday night. My two flights and layover …
June 30, 2013
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Friday 31 May. The adventure has begun. Since I squeezed three weeks of clothes and other necessities into a single – and consequently – heavy carry on, I opted to try to arrive at the airport several hours before my …