Today is my first full day in Hong Kong! I am awake after only six hours of sleep. Outside my window is this view of pouring rain:
I consider maybe not sticking to my original plan of going to Lantau Island. I mean, it is raining! I know it is supposed to rain my entire time here. I ask myself what I am going to do instead. It is a trick question. If I can come up with an alternative, I am allowed to do it. But if my only alternative is to go back to bed, then I know I am just using the rain as a scapegoat for me being nervous about going out in a new country all by myself. Guess what? It turns out I did plan to go back to bed. Nuh uh – nope. You chose to come here, you are going out. So I did.