Around the world

Okay I just ate Popeye's Chicken in the Hong Kong Airport on my way to Vietnam. I am not sure if it gets any better than that. (Maybe Roscoe's chicken and waffles late night or the Waffle House).

I am about 10 days into my trip and things are moving right along. The first real part of my trip begins in Vietnam because I am flying solo like Buck Rogers or Cane from Kung Fu, etc, etc, etc.

Not much more to say about Shanghai except that I took the Magnetic Train from Shanghai to the airport. It was pretty cool. It took exactly seven minutes to go 30 KM or 16.6 miles and tops out at 431 KM/hr or about 270 Miles/hr and it cost a meager 40 Yuan or $5. Not too bad.

Here are my trip highlights for Hong Kong which is a great city to visit. We hit some great weather too!

We visited Lamma Island which is about a 30 minute ferry ride from the city. It is a small quaint island with small shops and beaches. The firemen ride around on ATVs and there are even mini-ambulances to navigate the small streets. While we were there, we visited a local organic bookstore, had some homemade cheesecake and chilled at the beach for a bit. Not a bad day.

We went up to the Victoria Peak in Hong Kong and hiked around the peak during the sunset. We got a great view of Honk Kong island.

We visited Kowloon which is across the bay from Hong Kong city. At night, there is a night market which sells everything from head bands to Formula One race jackets. Kowloon is supposed to be the most densely populated area in the world. Also, there is an old ferry service from Hong Kong city to Kowloon which has run for a very long time (don't know exactly how long but long) and cost a mere $2.2 HK or about $0.25 US.

We took a super fast ferry to Macao where you can gamble. It was once a Portugese province but it is now part of China. The US casinos are now just beginning to build casinos in Macao. There are a plethora of games to gamble on including blackjack (a bit different from the US), carribean stud, three-card poker and many other games that I could not decipher. But they lacked the game of games, craps - Yo Eleven! I do not think anywhere compares to Vegas, baby, Vegas. And just like Vegas, there were no winners in our group. Good times, Good times!

We also went to races. Nothing like gambing on the ponies. Although it did take a bit to understand their terms but gambling is like riding bike. My friend and I did not do that well but it was fun anyways.

Well, this blog is pretty long and I need to catch my plane to Vietnam. I have no reservations for a place to say, not much of an agenda but I am living the life... My next blog and/or emaill with be from Vietnam.