Today our GSH crew all met in the SF Hyatt for orientation and Q&A with event organizers. Our group- half Americans and half Canadians, all nervously introduced ourselves and made poor attempts at putting together the 20+ names and faces together of the folks we’d be traveling with for the next 23 days.
Within an hour of meeting, we’d been alerted to our group welcome dinner at a nearby restaurant, E&O Trading Company. We also received our first set of challenges to let us cut our teeth in San Francisco before we met for dinner. Jeff and I realized immediately we were in trouble. We had just spent two fun days in SF but couldn’t answer any of the questions without darting around town. So instead, we decided to pace ourselves and catch a bit of The Masters before dinner.
Dinner was fun & festive- a great chance to improve my lackluster chopstick skills. As we wrapped up entrees, Bill, the event mastermind, informed us that we would be checking out of our hotel that evening and we needed to get ourselves to the airport before 11:30 for the first leg of our adventure, which turned out to be the 1:20am flight to Hong Kong. It was probably best that we didn’t have more time to contemplate or dread the first 14-hour flight. Little did we know that a second flight to Beijing awaited us upon arrival in Hong Kong. This 3-hour flight seemed to pass in a blink after the trans-Pacific journey we just endured.
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