China Lite

After high-stress scrambling to try to keep the plants from dying and the house from falling down while we are gone, we managed to find our way on the flight go Hong Kong (with a little chutzpah to help how late we were for checking in).

We arrived late Thursday and discovered that we had a hotel problem, and vacancies were few...it seems that HK is not well suited to the sort of last-minute decision traveling we are looking for. I'm feeling off rythym, but then again I'm jetlagged. But we ended up at a decent place deep in no-English territory...at least the egg custard I had before bed and the congee for breakfast are good out there.

This morning we are just wandering trying to get the lay of the land. We got some forbidden (at home) mangosteens, and are going to wander our way up to the Peak later today.

But the real journey won't begin until we go up the river, to find Kurtz (wrong river...)