Shanghai: Hot, muggy, smoggy, crowded. Using my Chinese crowding skills to squeeze up to the front of the check-in line, though throngs of Chinese with stacks and stacks and stacks of luggage filled with shoes (!,yep, shoes, Off to some kind of shoe convention in Las Vegas apparently). After coffee and fruit I head off through lax security, change my $$, email home and catch a 12:00 Noon flight to San Fran.
Saturday #2:
I get off the plane at 8:30 AM (yes, 4 hours before I flew out of China) and I'm on standby for a flight to Seattle, hoping that someone will get me home from there. At 12:00 Noon on Saturday July 28th, I get off the plane in Seattle! (Yep, the same time that I (think?) I flew out of Pudong in Shanghai!
Maybe I never really was in China? Maybe it was all a dream and I was just on a short seminar about China in San Fran??
Well, for some reason it is really wonderful to see blue sky and green trees! It's wonderful to breathe fresh, clean mountain air scented with pines and drink crisp, clean well water from the tap! It feels good to hear English everywhere and not be jostled around walking through the airport. It's good to see a fairly orderly flow of traffic (it is Seattle still : ) using the roads and freeways without playing at bumper cars. I do feel blessed to be a US citizen AND I give credit to my Buddist birth-year red agate protector for the lucky and safe travels, hmmm, I must have been in China then, cause I didn't know about this protector in June....
Next: How I get home from Seattle....
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