So the beginning of my trip went kind of strangely, beginning with forgetting my Typhoid pills at home, worrying that Katie's mattress was going to fall off of her car, and almost running out of gas. All that aside, I got to LAX on time. The flights were long. So long. Painstakingly long. My 14.5 hour flight to Taipei was delayed an hour, and then later I took a 3.5 hour flight to Bangkok. Then I sat in the airport and waited for Dan and Paul, which was to say the least, mindblowing. Not much to do in an airport at 3:00am on New Years. I did celebrate New Years 3 times though, once for China (they played videos of Beijing on the plane), again in Taipei, and then shortly before landing in Bangkok. Does that
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