Flight's booked!

There's no turning back now.  A non-refundable $400 has been spent to fly from here to LAX and back.

Not that I was every planning on turning back, especially with everyone's amazing (and also non-refundable) support of my trip.

But this just got even more real.  Instead of just knowing I'm leaving on June 28 and returning on August 6, I now have times.  I'll be leaving from the Sioux Falls Airport at 8:55 A.M. on June 28, landing in Denver at 9:24 (note time change, of course), meeting a couple fellow travelers there, flying out to LAX at 10:24 with some of them, and landing in California at 11:50.  I'll then have the next nine and a half hours to wait to meet with my team.  I've been talking to a couple team members, and we might all try to arrive around Noon and explore LA a little.  The airport's only about a mile from the beach ;)

After an afternoon of exploring, we meet with the rest of our team of China travelers (about 120 in all) at 9:30 P.M., and then it sounds like we do a bunch of waiting once again because our flights to Hong Kong leave around 12:30 A.M.  The flight's 12-13 hours, I think. AND THEN I LAND IN CHINA!

Four weeks in Hong Kong.. one week in Cambodia.. a couple days back in Hong Kong.

...and then we're off to LAX again! I'm not sure when we'll land at LAX, but my flight takes off and heads back to Denver at 5:05 PM on August 6th. I fly to Denver, wait for a few hours, then fly back to Sioux Falls and land at 12:15 AM on the 7th.

It's all getting so more and more real. That's the last big detail I had to figure out. And now it's done!