china airlines, tpe to sfo

It's very hard to leave this place. At the hotel there was a lot of "let me take you picture!" and "zai-chien! have safe journey!" and the whole lot were more cheerful and friendly than a bunch of Brits having tea and biscuits on a cricket lawn. And every person I saw on my way to the airport - the obliging taxi driver, the woman at the info kiosk who handed me tissues when I snuffled, the two store clerks who dug furiously through Duty Free stock to find a plastic ball with a weird bug - every one of them reminds me of how innocent and open this place is.

The flight is boarding, must go.

Zai-chien!