After the insanity and fun of closing night, after a day of semi-"rest", after an hilarious evening of dueling haikus, I am still shocked, amazed, and honored at being awarded with such high praise — let alone the 'Jupiter' Award — for having fun. I've said it before; I'll say it again: I love creating tours. From research to picture gathering to pounding my head on the keyboard during coding, I simply have a blast doing them. Where else, but AW, can you go and be showered with praises and awards for doing something you have so much fun doing?

Many, many thanks to Jot for gifting us all with this great site; my humble thanks to the demis (and Jot) for honoring The Orient so highly on its first time out with the big kids; and thank you, thank you, thank you to the patrons and citizens of AncientWorlds who left such kind remarks about Chang'an and who have embraced The Orient so completely. You guys are great!