I never really thought of China as a funny place, but it seems my trips here serve as plucky comedic relief for the travel gods. The adventure I describe below – just the first leg on a 21-day trip – lasted 32 hours and included a plane, a train, multiple automobiles, a honeymooning couple, some helpful
I rode the escalator up from baggage claim at Shanghai’s Pu Dong airport, rushing to get checked in for my 1:10 p.m. departure to Japan. I had 90 minutes. I was five and a half hours in to my trip from Zhuhai, China over to Tokyo. I hadn’t expected it to be a difficult day,
TOKYO – Somewhere over the Pacific, on a three hour-delayed flight aboard All Nippon flight 920, it struck me that I was being taught a new lesson in patience. I thought I had handled it pretty well so far, and I thought I was on the final leg of my China adventure, ready to be
