a document of days

On June 5th I leave for Hong Kong. Though the flight is still a long one:  2 hours to Chicago, and then 15 hours and 30 minutes to Hong Kong, this is actually a full 8 hours shorter than the flight to Singapore.

I am excited. But this time, I am also nervous.  I will be traveling alone and I will not be meeting anyone there.  

However, no matter how nervous I am for this trip, I just can't imagine how big the butterflies are in the stomachs of those headed to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.