Thursday AM here. I'm going on day 9 and getting ready to check out of my hotel in Shanghai. My crazy week of travel started 2 days ago. We took about 7 hours worth of taxi's and buses north to a "very small city" of Tiazhou. Small city my ass! There are 1.6 million people in Tiazhou. I guess my colleagues meant small in compared to Shanghai, which is a ridiculous 18 million. Anyways, during the trip, I left my blackberry and finance book (I was doing hw) on one bus as we made a hasty transfer to another bus. I thought they were long gone. Foretuneately, Stephen was able to make some magic happen, went back to the bus station and recovered both items. Whew! We stayed in a beautiful hotel for $50 USD. The next day we visited a supplier, and then took the long ride south back to Shanghai.
Tonight, we are taking a flight from Shanghai to Shenzen. Tomorrow we'll take a 2 hour car ride from Shenzhen to visit another supplier. Tomorrow night we'll get on a train to take us to Hong Kong. We'll be in Hong Kong Friday night and Saturday night before catching a flight Sunday to head back to the US.
It's going to be a busy 3 days here, but I'm looking forward to being a tourist in Hong Kong on Saturday. Apparently, it was more cost effective to stay in Hong Kong through Saturday and then fly out on Sunday. So I'll get a free day in Hong Kong. Should be fun.
I'm not sure if we'll have internet access the next 3 nights. If so, I'll try to get more pictures uploaded to flickr. If not, I'll see you back in the central time zone!
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