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| A dragon presides over breakfast |
...changes in attitude; nothing remains quite the same. And that's exactly why we change latitudes. An attitude adjustment was definitely in order for me. So here I am in Hong Kong remembering that I'm not a big city girl. The streets are noisy and crowded, the shops are the same you find in any big city, and dragons lurk everywhere. But it somehow renews you to encounter the different sounds and smells of a new place. The streets of Kowloon, Hong Kong, are a rabbit warren of shops tucked away in nooks and crannies and streets wandering at strange angles leaving you disoriented and, yes, lost.
Our 15-hour flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong on United Airlines was amazing. We had been able to use miles (and, of course, cash) to upgrade to business class. Everyone should have a business-class pod in their homes. It's an interesting combination of sense deprivation and sense immersion. Push a button and your feet go up laying your body out flat; push another, your feet go down and someone puts food in front of you. Push a third and the screen offers you your option of movies, TV shows, music or whatever suits you. You're otherwise blissfully unaware of anything else going on around you. So I watched
Green Book, Can You Ever Forgive Me, a documentary on the Okavango Delta, slept 6 hours, ate two meals and one snack, and woke up in Hong Kong. Like I said, amazing.
It's a drizzly day in Hong Kong, but probably about as warm a day and we'll see in the next two weeks as we head north. The clouds lifted and the rain subsided on my morning walk, so all is well. In just a few hours, we'll board the beautiful Nautica, unpack, and set sail for a day at sea. Ahhhh!
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| The sun comes out! |
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| Business class pod on United Airlines |
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| Rainy Hong Kong Harbor |
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