Archive for the 'Hong Kong' Category
Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Whew! What a ride! A week in Vegas, a month in Salem Oregon, a week in Hong Kong, 5 months in Thailand (4 in Bangkok and a month on Koh Samui) a week in Hong Kong again, 2 weeks in Salem, 10 days in Vegas and now back home in Oaxaca. Right now, I don’t care if I see another airport again!
Oaxaca is in the middle of an historical heat wave. Am I still in Thailand? Three fans on in my bedroom at night. Oh where is that Thai A/C?! Too hot to go grocery shopping! (Maybe I’ll lose some weight.) Tomorrow I’ll just water my plants and drink what’s left of my Arizona Iced Green Tea. And then take a nap.
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
You can just imagine the look on my son Josh’s face in Hong Kong today as my chair collapsed out from under me in Las Vegas as I disappeared from view in his skype video frame! He he. Fell on my bum as he kept helplessly asking “are you alright?” Are you alright?”
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
So the Reds are keeping up the pressure in Bangkok. My yellow shirt friend didn't want me to take a taxi to the airport yesterday for a flight to Hong Kong (taxis being almost all Red because most ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Last month I had the best company and dinner partner ever...my son who is a chef at The American Club...a family club for American expats living and working in Hong Kong. Because employees and their families are not allowed to ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Well, as expected, here I am at 2am wide awake on the island of Hong Kong. After a somewhat frenetic 3 weeks with Bob and I taking up Doug's kitchen and entire dining room table in Salem Oregon, Bob has ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
After a week here, I leave Hong Kong this morning on the 1.5 hour long train ride to Guangzhou China. Hong Kong is Hong Kong. The mainland is China according to the locals here who needless to say ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
I did it! It's 9pm January 22 here now. Never going to take long 20 hour plane flight again! Will stop off somewhere...anywhere...Hawaii...Figi...anywhere! Fast efficient train to Kowloon and then taxi to the Star Guesthouse on Cameron ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2004
Today we try to get our China visa in Berlin, but were refused because we weren't Germans. It was suggested by the Chinese embassy that we could get a visa in Hong Kong, but since our trans siberian tickets ...
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Friday, January 10th, 2003
After the cold nights in China, we were looking for warmth so we flew from Hong Kong to Manila in the Philippines for a couple nights and then took a ferry to the island ...
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Thursday, November 21st, 2002
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Thursday November 21 2002
Reading "The Coming Collapse of China," a book written by a Chinese American economist...a dissenting opinion...he gives China five years to get their banking system in order...which he doubts will ...
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2002
Wednesday November 20 2002
We flew to Hong Kong from Bangkok on China Airways at 3pm...a one hour time change. We noticed the metal spoon and fork that came with our food service ...
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2002
Major Cities We Visited
"The opening up of China is a stirring idea," Lonely Planet says. A foreigner traveling alone today is privileged to see more of China than almost any Chinese has seen ...
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