Day one was all about airports and airplanes. Two hours to LAX, wait 5 hours. Eleven hours to Tokyo. It was so beautiful from the air I wanted to stay, but once on the ground I only  saw the inside of the airport. Three hours and then a brand new airplane with eminently polite Japanese flight attendants. Five hours spent mostly sleeping and I landed in Hanoi. The rest of my group arrived 90 minutes later and we were mini bussed through the darkness to our hotel to collapse and recover from our jet lag.
I'm not having any luck posting pictures here yet. If you are on Facebook you can see a few I've posted there.