Friday, July 8, 2016
Tour day 1 of 15. San Francisco. Final packing. Shower. Breakfast: granola with yogurt, 6 ounces of carrot juice. Rode either Lyft or UberX to SFO, met the others. We passed through security check. About a 12-hour United Airlines non-stop flight 888 from San Francisco (SFO) to Beijing (PEK) with Dex, Dad, Rob, Lani, Jeremy, Matthew, Kiana, and Akemi. The flight arrived a bit early. We had two and a half meals during the flight, uneventful. Dex and I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark via iTunes on my iPad Pro with an audio splitter. I nap at some point during the flight. Friday ends while we are in flight. Our Chinese speakers on this trip are Lani, Kiana (studied 5.5 years), and Akemi (studied 2 years).