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Hong Kong Phoeey!

Hong Kong morning...from Tsim Sha Tsui across the channelMy first hotel room..Hong Kong Airport Wednesday 1:00 a.m.The Tropical View outside my first hotel room in HONG KONG!Tuesday, Oct 24th.
“Orange is no longer my favorite color.”
-Overhead in Gate c-6 waiting area of Sea-Tac airport: a blue haired middle american lady commenting on the current Terror alert level.
No one told me about liquids on airplanes. no one told me that toothpaste, hair gel, shampoo, moisteUrizer, bug juice & callus cream where all part of Osama’s PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA*
I gladly comply, digging though my backpack, pulling out all the offensive weapons -who needs hair gel? Shampoo? Toothpaste? Not The Toothpaste! “Its more than three ounces sir…” Me: “But Its only half full.” “We have to go by the label sir…” AH..HA! Who needs toothpaste! Away it goes! …& then i feel it. The brand new TWELVE ounce tube of Dr. Zonk’s Wonder Foot Crack Cream. The Sandal savior, the hippie healing balm for calloused rough heels. My heels. My heels which are still healing from a summer in Keen sandals. I take a quick peek up at the uniformed fascist-he is preoccupied with a potential terrorist from Kansas. My hands seem to be rooting around but in reality i am hiding the contraband from our FAA overlords. A few tense minutes as a rudimentary search of my pack is conducted…further sweats as the bag is x-rayed-did its conveyor belt just pause?
But the foot cream slips through…

*Much less successful than George Bush’s

HONG KONG
THE AIRPORT: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
Sleep at the airport, but steal your airplane blanketfirst…it’s quiet@ night, but chilly.
HONG KONG: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
Expensive, big, dirty, clean. Worlds longest escalator (& it’s outside), Hearing “Copy watch?” everywhere is Tsim Sha Tsui. Great curry. On Sunday the streets of Wan Chai district fill with THOUSANDS of filipino servant girls for their 1 day off. English signs everywhere-but few English. Great public transport. Buildings buildings buildings.

Wait for the pictures….



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