October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 47m
English
“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.” | ||
| --Napoleon Bonaparte | ||
It seems that every time I travel to Southeast Asia, I return with interesting stories. From a security perspective it is one of the most unique areas of the world that I have visited; I’ll get to more on why this is later. One recent trip I took there was no different. I boarded a flight in San Francisco armed with magazines, extra laptop batteries, and an MP3 player, and readied myself for a twenty-hour excursion that would include a few hours of layover in Japan’s Narita airport.
It turned out that the gentleman sitting next to me was also destined ...