{Part I of Husband Pieter's Trip to East Asia}

Let's start with these series of husband Pieter's Trip to East Asia on his People to People Citizen Ambassador Program.

On Friday, March 20, 1987 we both left for the Atlanta airport to leave the USA.

Pieter was flying west bound to East Asia and I was flying east bound to Europe...
So we hugged each other goodbye for 3 weeks and Pieter left with Northwest Airlines for Seattle, Washington state, via Minneapolis/St. Paul in Minnesota.
My plane left some 7 hours later so I stayed with some elderly friends till than.

This is an actual photo from Pieter at his final destination in China!
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Everything on Pieter's Northwest flight went well, and upon arrival in Seattle, they did have a briefing with the entire delegation.
They also had to practice eating peanuts with chopsticks, followed by dinner.
They stayed at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel in Seattle

The Four Seasons Olympic Hotel is now the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle but the address and even phone number did not change! 

Next morning after breakfast they again had some briefings, with Max Gerber of the Citizen Ambassador Program and guest speaker Karl Lo, Director of the University of Washington East Asia Library. 

After that we went by bus to the airport for check in.

Pieter got an upgrade with Northwest Orient and had seat # 12 in Executive class from Seattle to Tokyo, Japan on Northwest Orient flight 07.

Than somebody made a mistake and the evacuation slide came out and got inflated!

That caused two hours delay...

The flight to Tokyo was about 10-½ hours and it was a strange experience for having daylight the entire time. 

It was Pieter's first time, flying over the North Pole but he could not see anything because of cloudy weather.

To be continued...

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{The Most Poisonous THREE-Letter Word... "EGO" - Overcome it}

 Here is another quote about the Most Poisonous Three-Letter Word... "EGO" - Overcome it.

We better let go of this "EGO" and become a more lovable person!

That makes us a little more 'angelic'

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{People to People Citizen Ambassador Program - Husband Pieter's Trip to East Asia}

It has been quite a challenge for finally working out this incredible East Asia journey to Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taipei...

Yes, after husband Pieter's actual trip on March 20, 1987 till April 10, 1987!

But it meant so much to him and due to his age, I wanted to get this out of the way before anything else!

Archiving things!

Pieter, being a world renown mushroom expert, got chosen for joining a group of 10, to visit Universities and lecturing and making field trips on behalf of the Mushroom Industry. 

His employer Campbell Soup did fully cover his expenses.

How much I would have loved to join him but we had absolutely no funds for doing so.

Paying for daughter Liz who studied at the Royal Academy of Arts and Design in Den Bosch, The Netherlands and also paying off the mortgage of our home at a hefty 9% rate for the time. As well as paying off my Ford Escort...

We also opted to fund the biggest part of Mom & Dad's FIRST flight to the USA...

So I did fly in opposite directions, to The Netherlands, when Pieter started his trip with a flight to Seattle, Washington.

This also proved to become our LONGEST time apart as Pieter had to go to Europe for about a week, right after Taipei.

In–between we had Mom & Dad for 3 weeks staying with us in the USA and I did most of the sight seeing with them as Pieter only had the weekends available.

I flew back with Mom & Dad to The Netherlands, as I had to do consulting work in Germany for 2 weeks...

All this while Pieter went to Australia and New Zealand for Campbell Soup.

We did have a very close blissful relationship via phone... 

PEOPLE TO PEOPLE

Fostering International Friendship... founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower

CITIZEN AMBASSADOR PROGRAM

Advancing International Communication

HONORARY CHAIRMEN

People to People International
At that time it was President Ronald Reagan...

AIR SCHEDULE

People to People Mushroom Production Delegation to East Asia

ACCOMMODATIONS

Bear in mind that at that time we had no digital cameras yet and thus photos are not dated with information from area taken etc.

Due to our very turbulent life style at the time and an upcoming move from Georgia to Pennsylvania we never found the time for exchanging thoughts and viewing together his slides from this mega trip.
Also one box with slides etc. ??? got lost in that move... Making the puzzle only harder. 

But last year I managed to scan all available slides and now I also managed to scan some photos that Pieter had developed from his trip.

So in some upcoming posts you will get to see some of his incredible journey.

I also will try to visit some of your blogs...

Thanks a lot!

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