ecmolik on June 30th, 2009

  Sunday was a free day, so Russ, Roger and Doug ( the men) all decided to take a ride on the Maglev (magnetic levitation) train to the airport and back.  It goes over 400 miles per hour and they wanted to have this experience at least once in their lives! James, our guide went with [...]

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ecmolik on June 30th, 2009

And Nick makes three! Yes, it was Nick’s turn to be sick in the Saklas family.  Apparently, everytime Nick ran to the bathroom in the middle of the night he managed to flick all the lights in the room on so Lisa and AJ were woken up as well.  Too bad, they must have caught [...]

Continue reading about Day 11 – Saturday, June 27th, Shanghai

  Today we only had 287 kms. to travel from Yangzhou to Shanghai so we decided to start a little later around 10 a.m.  but by the time we all got organized it was more like 11 a.m.  Traveling was pretty smooth and we stopped for lunch around 1 p.m.   How our guides find [...]

Continue reading about Day 10 – Friday, June 26th Drive to Shanghai (295 km – total to date 1,590 km)