Shanghai
Room at JW Marriott, 55th floor, is exactly as it should be for spoiled americans.
Shanghai, as Doris pictures show, a combo of NY, Chicago, LA, and Dallas.
Meaning not the best of all those cities, but all those cities schmushed together on one spot.
I'm sure there are some run down areas as well, so throw Detroit into it as well.
Newspaper headline yesterday said that China was going to complete 45 new airports in the next 5 years, about as long as it took the citizens of Ann Arbor to figure out what to do with 45 lizards or frogs or whatever held up construction of sky line high school.
Memo to D. Seals. They have an express train from airport to downtown, same concept as has been threatened in Wayne County for 25 years. 8 minutes at 260 MPH, although they usually restrict speed to a more leisurely 250 mph.
They pretty much have everything, except of course Google, blogging, and self determination. But the trains run on time.
Enough social commentary, back to topic number one. Me, and doris of course.
Met up with Japanese sister that had once lived in Michigan and two others from the Japanese group here. We got the grand tour of gardens and shopping and ferries, and subways, and prominades, sky scrapers, etc. For good measure we had Korean for lunch.
What else should americans and japanese eat while in china?
Her husband us in the evening and we went to acrobat show. On the way had our first real crushing experience of our adventure. We were crushed, literally, into what already seemed like an impossibly crowded subway car. I was the pulling guard hitting the hole and making room for doris and Reiko, who is all of 5' , 95#.
After 90 min of ever more unreal contortions and trickerations we finished up with Shanghai DimSum. Next set of doris pictures will fill in the visuals
Room at JW Marriott, 55th floor, is exactly as it should be for spoiled americans.
Shanghai, as Doris pictures show, a combo of NY, Chicago, LA, and Dallas.
Meaning not the best of all those cities, but all those cities schmushed together on one spot.
I'm sure there are some run down areas as well, so throw Detroit into it as well.
Newspaper headline yesterday said that China was going to complete 45 new airports in the next 5 years, about as long as it took the citizens of Ann Arbor to figure out what to do with 45 lizards or frogs or whatever held up construction of sky line high school.
Memo to D. Seals. They have an express train from airport to downtown, same concept as has been threatened in Wayne County for 25 years. 8 minutes at 260 MPH, although they usually restrict speed to a more leisurely 250 mph.
They pretty much have everything, except of course Google, blogging, and self determination. But the trains run on time.
Enough social commentary, back to topic number one. Me, and doris of course.
Met up with Japanese sister that had once lived in Michigan and two others from the Japanese group here. We got the grand tour of gardens and shopping and ferries, and subways, and prominades, sky scrapers, etc. For good measure we had Korean for lunch.
What else should americans and japanese eat while in china?
Her husband us in the evening and we went to acrobat show. On the way had our first real crushing experience of our adventure. We were crushed, literally, into what already seemed like an impossibly crowded subway car. I was the pulling guard hitting the hole and making room for doris and Reiko, who is all of 5' , 95#.
After 90 min of ever more unreal contortions and trickerations we finished up with Shanghai DimSum. Next set of doris pictures will fill in the visuals
you two work so well together Doris pictures are great and your storytelling. what a pair!!!
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