Takeoff

October 25-26

Okay, looked as if we were going to get off on time, but now we’re sitting on the runway because of weather, waiting to take off on the 6570-mile, 13-hour flight to Beijing. Fortunately, it turns out that this is a short delay, and we take off exactly an hour late.

I could […]

October 26th, 2012 | Category: China, 2012 | 4 comments

China Ahead

When I set out for China on the evening of the 25th, it will not be my first trip there. Back in 2000, Carol and I celebrated our 35th anniversary on a biking and hiking trip to China with our dear friends Eli and Phyllis Segal, whose wedding we’d attended a week before our own […]

October 19th, 2012 | Category: China, 2012 | 3 comments
 
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