A journey of 26,000 miles begins with a single flight segment (or in this case, two). I think Confucious said that. Not much excitement today -- lunch in Billings, Pizza in Salt Lake City, and sleep in Los Angeles.

There was really nothing to take a picture of, so no pictures today. In fact, about the only out-of-the-ordinary event was seeing Reuben Studdard ("American Idol") being searched by the TSA at LAX -- and my camera wasn't ready.

The whole purpose of today was to get to Los Angeles, which is the jumping off point for the whole excursion. Tomorrow it's off to Tokyo, where we'll post an entry Friday night, Tokyo time.

Bye for now.