Well, I'm past security in YVR and I felt this was a pretty good time to make that fabled first on-the-road post. For a moment I forgot that I was walking through an airport... this place is like a mall: stores of every kind. I'm grabbing a burger and then I'll be off to twiddle my thumbs at the gate. Or maybe I'll invent a new branch of mathematics on the back of a napkin. Whatever passes the time, right?

I'm all geared up and excited to get on the plane. Something tells me that enthusiasm might wane 4-5 hours into the flight, but I've got some PowerPoint slides to make, as is the customary fashion of a physicist with presentations to make (so I'm told). I should probably save some battery power for that, so I'm signing off.

London here I come!