Dateline: Sino-Swiss Airport Hotel, Beijing China, 10 August 2004
After dropping kids with the Meusslings in Indy, Vonne and I spend quiet
night in airport hotel. Up and out this/yesterday am. 1130 flight to Twin
Cities, then 3pm flight to Tokyo which got in Tuesday afternoon 3pm local.
Then 3hr flight to Beijing, getting in around 9pm local. Hotel had car and
driver waiting. Checked in. Room is nice, bottled Evian and high-speed
Internet are reasonable.
Gonna conk and then we're picked up by Beijing University car in morning for
my talk/Vonne's guided shopping. We'll connect after lunch and sightsee the
afternoon together.
We are in this hotel through Sunday morning. Then we fly to Nanchang that
morning and receive Vonne Mei Ling that afternoon.
Our room number at hotel is 427 for those of you who need that info.
Travel wasn't bad. Food decent. Movies okay. We bought a lot of bad
trashy celebrity and movie mags and read throughout. Vonne had brought
various anti-jet lag elixirs and it all seemed to go just fine. Pretty
funky to cross international date line--a first for us both.
All our best,
Tom and Vonne
