September 16th Takeoff!

Today is the day!
We (my photographer Donna and I) are leaving Minneapolis, Minnesota around 3PM. A short 12 and a quarter hours later and we'll be in Japan. Then 3.5 hours after that … Shanghai, China. We leave at 3PM on the 16th and arrive at 8:45PM on the 17th. There is an International Dateline thing happening somewhere over the Pacific.
Tomorrow (or is it the day after tomorrow?) we will be visiting a Black & Decker plant making Delta machinery. I am looking forward to it.
And … our first meal in China. Here we go!