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With just $21 he sailed to a new life in America with a tiny wooden boat CNN 2 hrs ago © Courtesy of Eddie Fong Sitting in Eddie Fong's living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. © Courtesy of Eddie Fong Treadwell and Fong stand with the model of "Little Duck." Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his birthplace Hong Kong to the United States in the 1960s, thanks to a chance encounter with a retired Oakland detective that developed into an ambitious plan to sail across the Pacific Ocean to Cal...

How a failed journey to California aboard a Chinese junk boat led to a lifelong friendship Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his birthplace Hong Kong to the United States in the 1960s, thanks to a chance encounter with a retired Oakland detective that developed into an ambitious plan to sail across the Pacific Ocean to California on a life-sized junk boat. Before speaking to CNN Travel, Fong texted us a spoiler alert: “I need to...