"Hi" from Hong Kong. Well actually from Osaka, but this is Fran in the Hong Kong airport--the only thing we saw of Hong Kong. We thought about Kyle and Jamie and waved to them, but the ingrates never waved back.
It's been waaaay toooooo long since any blog entries, but now I do believe I might have something to blog about, if anyone is interested. Now the problem may be finding or making the time to do it.
We have just stopped after almost exactly 24 hours of travel that took us right over the top of the world and sat us down in a new day. We flew over the vast snow and ice sheet that is Greenland and then through a bunch of Russian and Chinese airspace. It felt like we were flying east more than we were flying west. I think the plane just got up high enough in the air and then stopped and let the earth turn under us. It turns out we skipped about 12 hours. All is going well but we have managed to have a bit of an adventure finding our hotel on both ends of the trip.
In New York, our cabbie (a lovely West African fellow) was quite new on the job and was good with JFK Airport but not so sure about the hotels around it. So we turned to Siri to get us to the hotel and she managed to get us even loster -- the first time. After going in a couple of circles, we finally landed at the correct hotel.
On the other end, in Osaka, we had the first evidence of incoherent directions. What the directions directed didn't agree with what we were finding on the ground. Finally, after some rather aimless and misguided wandering about, a very kind and patient Japanese lady literally lead us to our hotel. Where we are now safely and happily ensconced.
Below are some typical travel pictures of the sort you get while stuck in airports. Feel free to peruse or ignore.
The last one is obviously not an airport but is our room in Osaka. We will be here overnight and then tomorrow off to Kyoto and the real beginning of Fran's grand adventure.
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