…a preview of things to come. :)

We flew into Honolulu this morning at 11:30am. By 2pm, Chris and I were sitting at the Hula Grill’s bar telling the manager there that Bruce sent us and told us to try the Mai Tai. So we did. Bruce is a friend of ours we met on our last trip out here in January. He and his wife Yaling run a travel agency that still believes in using real live people (what a revelation) to help folks book their next vacation to Hawaii. As with most of the folks …

My son is no stranger to airplanes. He’s flown to Shanghai, New York, Atlanta and this trip is actually his second time visiting Honolulu.  Despite all the previous travel, I still have an inner freak out session every time I fly with him. I can’t help it. The anxiety is no where near as bad as it used to be when he was a baby with crying and dirty diapers being at the top of my worry list while 30K feet in the air. These days, at 3.5 years old …

photo: Chris-Seufert / Flickr / Creative Commons

Aloha. Guess what? I’ll be in Hawaii from May 24th to June 4th …working.
What does this have to do with China?
In the short term for the next few weeks. Nothing. In the long term for the coming years. Everything. Before I go into that, let me try and sum up how I got myself in this envious position of spending eight days in Oahu, Kauai, Maui and The Big Island connecting good people to each other so great things can happen.
I’ve spent the …