I'll be on a 747 for 18 hours!!! Image ©Vincent Laforet

I’m off to the airport to get on my flight(s) to Beijing… if you don’t hear from me within 48 hours - well then perhaps I’m a victim of the “Great Firewall of China” - but I think I’m prepared to overcome that and post away… thanks for the great response to the blog so far (over 9,000 visits OMFG what have I started!?!?)  Plenty more to come…

A little side bet - how many pills will it take to knock me out?  Trying to sleep through the early part of the flight so that I get on “Beijing Time” - 12 hours (exactly opposite sked yipee…”   What say you?