此时此刻 ,当我开始构思并写下这些文字的时候 ,我正从目前居住的美国东部出发 ,飞往西部的加利福尼亚州。回想起来 ,十几年前一个类似的日子 ,我曾经经历了一次类似的旅行 ,目的地同样是在加州。我之所以对那次飞行记忆犹新 ,除了因为那是我平生第一次有机会坐飞机去旅行 ,更 At this moment, as I begin to conceptualize and write these words, I am departing from the presently occupied eastern United States and flying to the western state of California. In retrospect, on a similar occasion more than a dozen years ago, I had undergone a similar trip to the same destination in California. The reason why I remember the flight is clear, except because it was my first time in my life to travel by plane and even more