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Li Ling – Dec 4th:
So the journey began! All non-US participants to the NB Palmer cruise flew today from different places in Europe to San Fransisco to begin our almost one month long quarantine before boarding the ship 🛳️ (The US participants joined us the 7th December).
I was heading off from Stockholm that had recently started snowing ❄️, super happy to be able to see snow before leaving home! The flight from Stockholm to San Fransisco was be a long one (~16h including transit time in London, which makes end-to-end journey time around… around 22h 😂). And the flight left from Arlanda airport at 07.50am! SUPER! EARLY!
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So this was me trying to catch the bus to Arlanda at 03.50am…
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The bear in the following picture is Xiaomoomoo, he’s been with me to every single long adventure since 2016
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The most complete view I had on a part of San Fransisco during the following one week…