I booked my round trip flight from LAX to SFO for $54 each way on Virgin America. They had a one day flash sale I just couldn’t resist. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw their new safety video which included singing and dancing and a rap by a little girl. For frequent fliers we…
Month: December 2013
Mission Impossible III has nothing on me!
If you have watched Mission Impossible III then you know that Tom Cruise ends up in Shanghai catapulting off buildings and then escaping and running along some canals to save his fiancée. Those canals are actually about an hour outside of Shanghai in a little place called Tongli. Today started with a visit to Suzhou…
Rodeo Drive in China
Waking up in Shanghai at the JC Mandarin was like waking up on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Outside the window was Cartier, Hermes, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and almost any other designer you could imagine. This was a vast contrast to the ancient architecture of Beijing. Shanghai literally means “above the sea,” and is China’s largest…
Temples and shops and palaces, oh my.
Day 5 brought us to our last few sites in Beijing before our flight to Shanghai. We stopped by the Temple of Heaven, the Pearl Shop and the Summer Palace. At the Temple of Heaven during the winter solstice, the Ming and Qing emperors would perform rites and make sacrifices to Heaven praying for good…
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