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Blog notes

Rather a remarkable evening , wow, the abstraction and anticipation of several months of preparation culminating with our walk through check-aboard stations and finally the plane hatch. EVA Airlines to Taipei, a whole different breed of flight with a sterwardess service that out-competes any other I’ve experienced, and a largely Asian clientele underscoring this overnight flight to the other side of the globe. Actually we’re following the earth’s shadow so the transition to dawn is a lot longer in arriving than usual, which is suitable to the kind of psyching involved in the larger context of change ushered by the physical journey. An amazing night, with the plume of the jet engine discharge illuminated from our back-of-the-plane vantage against an ink blacksky and vivid sparkle of stars. About two thirds of our way in to this 12 1/2 hour leg of the flight to Saigon—HCMC—via Taipei the reaches of Japan came into view as a sprawling archipelago of lights—virtually uninterrupted for hours. Surreal. Otherworldly. An amazing backdrop for this step in to the unknown on so many levels.



Notes from Orphanage:

Name: Tran Thang

Date of Birth: October 17, 2005

6 – 7 a.m. breakfast
8 milk 150 ml.
10:30 lunch (rice)
11;30 fruit and yogurt
3:30 noodles, half bowl
7 p.m. milk 250 ml.

Personal Notes:

Friendly, talks a lot. Likes to wear new clothes. Loves toys.