Actually, I’m a bit late. It’s almost Sunday morning. It seems that most flights from Sri Lanka leave at night. In our case, we’re leaving at 2:15. It’s not a direct flight to Hong Kong as we stop first in Bangkok. Just as when coming, we will not leave the plane.Saturday was a calm day. It was a day for the virtual transition. Long before one heads out on a long flight, there’s the time one gets one’s head there. This effect is more pronounced on the flight itself. Life on one side of the departure gate is completed but life on the other side of the arrival section hasn’t begun.
It was sad saying goodbye to everybody. Since there’s a great distance, it’s always harder than leaving friends or family in a place where a person could, in theory, visit in only 4 or 5 hours. It was very comfortable staying and uncomfortable leaving.
Still, Hong Kong beckons. That’ll be something new and new is good. There seems to be unlimited space in my head for the internal map of additional cities. Tomorrow, I’m ready to process new geographic data. Cool.