7 November 2015 Saturday Arts and Crafts Museum & Jingci Temple
杭 HANGZHOU Saturday 7 November 2015 Intention is all, is it not? It took an hour to print out a pdf. I still do not understand why. My good software engineer friend Hua Pin Shen, who knows everything there is to know about computers and software and electronic...
6 November 2015 Friday China Photos & YMCA
杭 HANGZHOU Friday 6 November 2015 A catch-up day on the computer, studying and comparing the 1908 photos and correlating them with the events discussed in the Clarence James Gamble handwritten journal. (And I took a long nap.) I had noticed initially that the Gamble...
5 November 2015 Thursday Grand Canal Museum & West Lake
杭 HANGZHOU Thursday 5 November 2015 Good Professor Shen arrived with taxi at 9:30. Off we tore into the traffic. I must look up the accident rate. How can these people not have an accident every block? But, no. Cars skim by each other, always within inches of each...
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
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
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
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...