Tag: Japan

China 2: There’s a problem with your luggage sir…

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,

China 1: A funny thing happened on the way to Tokyo

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