LA to Taipei

Sept 6 7:54 AM
Taipei, Taiwan

              Just got into Taipei. Flight was long and boring, it's nice though, they served two meals (booze included) and I was able to watch some new movies and sleep a little. Of course the first time I'm flying to Asia and I get stuck sitting next to the only Southern fat black lady for probably 1000 miles around. But she was nice, a little weird, but nice. So many odd/cool things I've seen already in my short time here. Stepping off the plane after my 13 hour flight to Taipei was a pretty awesome experience. I played a lot of Pokemon as a kid, and just walking through the airport I felt like it was real life Pokemon and Ash Ketchum was going to run up and smack me in the face with a Pokeball at any moment. The colors, writing, architechture and style of everything around me is pretty crazy, a little overwhelming at first, but in a god way. I wish I could experience more of Taipei but I had to rush to my terminal in order to make my flight to Vietnam.
Now that I have arrived here it is apparent that there is much less money in this country than in Taipei. My first impression here was an interesting one, as I was washing my hands in the restroom a man after finishing up his business proceeded to wash his hands in the urnial I had just used. Naturally I was confused, but he just walked by me, happy as a clam that he had just washed his hands in my piss water. The airport is much less kept than the Taipei airport and seems much older, I'm not sure if this is just a smaller airport or if they are all like this. There is no wi-fi here so I am just browsing the many odd shops they have in their terminal until my flight in about an hour. Can't wait to get into Laos and have a shower and a bed to sleep in. Its been a rough past 20 hours.