The China Chronicles

8/22/2004

Beijing, checkout hotel, ride to airport, small taxi foraging for breakfast. waiting fo rick's bag. getting in line. two in front. 5 minutes before open, two guys hodingplace for 20. ask for exit row, girl gets number wrong, getother ticket. embark. asked to give up seat, no speak chinese. doze, three stoges in chinese. weird food. chengdu, fast taxi driver. nicehotel. acoutrements nice. safe. tavel agent fun. safe problem, more money walk on river, bum smell. see hotpots. find reinmin park after false starts, tea. americans, rain. search for hotpot. dvd/cd/vcd. directions. wrong restaurant. austraiiolns, times quare. asking hotell lady, bike taxi to hotpot the hotpot. big pijou! bike taxi 1 bike taxi 2 internt raiuno mis itaia.