Sam At Large

Almost done, almost home.  24 hours from now I’ll have been in the air for about 40 minutes of the 11 hour flight from Beijing to Vancouver. I’m looking forward to being home. Today, I met up with a friend of mine from home for a good Starbucks chat in Sanlitun, a very trendy shopping [...]

I’ve just arrived in Beijing.  It is the sixth city in China that I’ve visited in the last two days.  I have been on planes, I’ve been on trains and I’ve been in many automobiles in these last two days.  I don’t think I’ve ever done this much hopping around before. Since about noon on [...]

Apparently it takes quite a few to change the tire on an Air China jet at the Beijing Airport. At one point, I counted at least eight workers standing around the front landing carriage. Two were actually crouched down using tools… the rest were on quality control duty. I should point out that this did [...]

I pretty much spent Day 1 in the air or at Beijing Airport, where all I saw were runways and smog. All those news reports and pictures I have seen with all the smog… it’s true. There is no lie in it at all.  This girl sitting next to me in the plane had the [...]