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We now resume our
regularly scheduled adventure, already in progress..........
Subject: Jamaican in China! --Oh, well...everything
happens for a reason
From: walt@jamaicaninchina.com
Date: August
30, 2010 10:48:21 AM GMT+10:00
So,
if you read the previous installment, then I'm sure you're wondering if my
passport with my China visa came in sufficient time for me to leave for
my trip....Well, first I'll say that I'm a "go with the flow"
type person, and
when things happen that would disappoint your average nomad, I
look for the hidden benefit or guidance in the situation, and take it all
in stride... With that said, to answer your question...
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YES!!!!....
GOT IT!!!
On
Wednesday it was still in Pago Pago, American Samoa, then,
it had to go back to Honolulu, then to Guam, then
to its destination, Saipan!
And
the reason it happened, I surmise, was simply to give me a little
suspenseful story to tell! For those of you who followed my
escape, return and subsequent re-escape from America in
the book, Jamaican
on Saipan, you'll
know that there's ALWAYS some mlittle
last-minute drama that "threatens" to derail the my adventures!
On
the contrary, this trip to China had been amazingly seamless and smooth!
Once
I realized I had a friend in Beijing, I found
a Saipan-direct-to-Beijing ticket timed perfectly to fit my calendar, sold
my car in less than 24 hours from the moment I decided to, etc. Yes,
everything was easy as pie! Eerie. Then,
my ticket ends up in Pago Pago, American Samoa! (Tell
you the truth, I was actually quite relieved when the drama hit!)
As my
friend, Stacey, commented on my American Samoa post:
"Another
amazing piece of your journey!! It would be unusual if something didn't
happen. LOL! You know it will work out, Walt! It always does!"
And
so it has!
Yes,
fear not, erstwhile reader. As my good friend, Erroll Paden, used to
say: "I ain't goin' out like that!"
So,
even before my passport arrived in hand, I spent the last few days on the
island of Saipan saying
goodbye to key people, returning, donating, and giving away more items
like my bicycle, trampoline*, my juicer (that was an emotional one), and finding a new home for my
favorite plant (Thanks, Ashley!)
*Rule
No 478 of the Nomadpreneur's Handbook: No trampolines in the duffel bag.
Thursday
Street Market, one last time....
Saipan
Tribune editor, Jayvee Vallejera, my good email buddy for 225 consecutive weekly articles! (an unbroken streak
since April 2006!)
Thanks
for everything, Jayvee!
Angel
and Lino at the Sabalu Market, my Saturday morning people-watching buddies. Hey,
Mel!
Saturday
night into Sunday morning I had a great time dancing at GIG with someone who
shall remain nameless and faceless...
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I'm scheduled for departure late, late, late on Sunday, so....by
the time you read this......I'll already be in China....unless,
of course, um...something unforeseen happens!
(but, I
think I've met the quota for this departure)
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With
a whoosh and flutter of the cloak of night
This
nomad departs, then is out of sight...
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[cue
the music: "See the World" by Gomez.....fade to silence]
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