Made it to Taiwan

Well, the long trek to Taiwan is over, now a day to recharge the batteries. The flights were good, but the 6+ hour layover in LA was long. My cohort Jerry and I spent several hours in a bar/restaurant and had several beers, wines and food items and it's amazing how quickly the bill adds up.
We had a scare in LA getting to the plane as it was originally scheduled for 3:15p departure, but when we checked in the boarding was supposed to start about 3:25p. Jerry and I headed to the gate and got there about 230p and went back to a snack bar to kill some time before boarding. About 330p we went to the gate and saw no signs of our flight. The monitors didn't even mention the flight, so we wondered what happened; did the flight leave already??? Well, it turns out it had moved to another gate about 1/2 mile away and when we got there, everybody had already boarded and it seemed they were waiting for us.
The flight was about 14 hours long and I was able to catch maybe 4 hours of sleep, on and off, so when we got to Taipei about 9p, I was moderately rested and seemed like I'd be able to get to sleep when we got to the hotel. We're staying at the Windsor Hotel in Taichung, and it's about 1.5 hours away, and the car ride seemed even longer. It took a while to get tired enough to get to sleep, but I slept fairly well. I got up about 530a (had the alarm set for 730a), with my body seemingly ready to get up. I went down to breakfast about 7a, and they have a very nice buffet breakfast here.
Anyway, so far so good. Love to all,
tom