Ling Yin Temple & Gamble Hall, Zhejiang University

Ling Yin Temple & Gamble Hall, Zhejiang University

杭 HANGZHOUWednesday  4 November 2015  The amazing Professor Hong Shen, English Professor at Zhejiang University (he has published thirty books, including one on Medieval English poetry and one on the photos of Sidney David Gamble) picked us up around ten, and off we...
From 海Shanghai to 杭Hangzhou

From 海Shanghai to 杭Hangzhou

海Shanghai  Tuesday  3 November 2015                     hanghai, we stayed the night at a 3-Star hotel, whose outside walls were pink, bright  pink. Did I say the outside walls were pink? I have photos to prove it, but sending photos, let alone email, on this network...
United Flight 857 San Francisco to Shanghai Nonstop

United Flight 857 San Francisco to Shanghai Nonstop

Monday  2 November 2015 The first half of the flight was one big party; by the second half, everyone was asleep or half-asleep in the seats, quite exhausted. But in the beginning, many were standing in the aisles, and everybody was talking to everybody else.The...
How to Prepare for a Trip to China Leaving from Medford, Oregon

How to Prepare for a Trip to China Leaving from Medford, Oregon

Sunday  1 November 2015Take the limo to the Medford Airport. Use your Global Pass; avoid all the lines; keep on your shoes. On reaching San Francisco, take another limo to Top of the Mark, where you have scheduled a facial and massage and dinner with friends at a...

China

I am off to China. On November first. Here is my  Safe passport cover that holds my China two-year visa inside. Getting it was not easy. In San Francisco, I waited two hours outside the Chinese Embassy before I got inside, where I waited another two hours, only to...