I packed up my duds and left for this village, where I arrived, all right, this morning".
Notwithstanding this, I travelled to the Antrim serious crime suite where I arrived at 8.05pm.
I began in Paris, where I arrived at the Gare du Nord and began slinging questions into the ether.
I've just returned to Sierra Leone, where I arrived in January 2012 with my husband, who is an aid worker.
It was one of those stays where I arrived so late I may as well have taken a seat for breakfast.
All this is true, but it misses an essential point about life in Tokyo, a place where I arrived thinking, "How very -- concrete it is".
Even 130 miles west, in the crossroads town of Burns, Ore., where I arrived just before midnight, I saw signs of cosmopolitanism: a bookstore-espresso bar, a Thai restaurant seamlessly integrated into the aging Elkhorn Club, a thriving 1930s-era movie theater.
In fact, I stopped in Memphis, then Phoenix, then Ontario, Calif., before heading to Oakland, where I arrived with a sore backside and a renewed hatred for salted peanuts.
In Greenwich, where I arrived at the beach on a cloudy Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, three different town workers warned us we would have to pay $50, as if to give us a chance to back out.
In rhythm to the soft tunes in the backdrop, I waved "au revoir" to the barrister behind the petite wooden bar and continued my journey to Saint Julien, where I arrived at Château Branaire Ducru - one of my favorite Bordeaux wineries.
