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3:50. Really? No, can’t be. It feels like I slept all day. Yep, 4:10 AM. Still pitch dark outside. This must be that jet lag people kept warning me about.
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positive about my experiences so far – this shower in my hotel room is
really, really nice. It has a double shower head switchable to a
hand-held shower head. It just feels nice. The water pressure is really
strong, too.</p><p>I go down to eat the hotel breakfast:</p><ul><li>2 steamed buns with different fillings</li><li>2 pieces of “baked bacon”</li><li>1 Fairly McDonald’s style potato cake (they call it potato pie)</li><li>1 piece of very British tasting sausage</li><li>1 Hard Boiled brown egg</li><li>1 French style croissant</li></ul><p>There’s another American here that I’m supposed to be able to meet up with,
and at 10 in the morning I call him up. Of course, he’s younger than me
so he’s sleeping, and says he’ll call me back later.</p><p>This is the point where the jet lag really starts bugging me. I’m all
restless, but tired too. I start to watch some DVDs that I took with me
(there’s a DVD player in my room). About 1pm, I’m totally annoyed that
I didn’t get a call back, and decide to go see what I can find.</p><p>I’ll start by simply saying that I walked in the wrong direction.
I didn’t know it then. I did find a 7-11, a McDonalds, someplace called
Big Pizza, and a Dairy Queen - all along a road that was so wide it had
pedestrian bridges across it at regular intervals. I totally didn’t
bring the camera (should have).</p><p>On the way back to the Hotel, I stopped by the 7-11 and bought a can of
Pringles, some Laundry Soap and a liter of “Coke Light”. When I got back
here, I puttered around a little, drank some Coke Light, ate half the
Pringles, cleaned my dirty clothes (not much, but wanted to figure out
how the machine worked) - it’s a “Washer / Dryer”, and all of the
instructions are in Chinese, so I sort of guessed, and ended up with
clean dry clothes two hours later.</p><p>I ate some Ramen noodle type thing for Dinner (the hotel had a few items
that they started me off with - including tea bags and bottled water).
About 9PM, the other American called me back, and told me that he had
fallen back to sleep, and didn’t wake up until 2, and that he had tried
calling then. We made arrangements to meet up in the morning.</p><p>Tired and fuzzy, and having taken no useful pictures… I went to bed.
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So, I’m in China for the next few months, and getting there is not half the fun.
Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"In China","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Getting there is NOT half the fun","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Getting there is NOT half the fun","name":"Getting there is NOT half the fun","description":"October 12 Minneapolis, MN, USA\nSo, I\u0026rsquo;m in China for the next few months, and getting there is not half the fun.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t get me wrong, it wasn\u0026rsquo;t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn\u0026rsquo;t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on.","keywords":["blog","in-china","history","work"],"articleBody":"October 12 Minneapolis, MN, USA\nSo, I’m in China for the next few months, and getting there is not half the fun.\nDon’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on. Drink service every 90 to 120 minutes or so.\nI was between two very nice women, Jennifer and Gretchen. Both of them were flying with people who had been given upgrades to business class. Jennifer was very friendly, and told me about her children and about her friend, who is an Ex-Pat on year two of her assignment. Gretchen was less sharing, but works for “the University” as some sort of Foreign Programs coordinator.\nI have an iPod, and had loaded several movies on it, so I watched some, but kept having to pause it for interruptions anyway. One of the interruptions occurred when the in-flight movie suddenly shut-off, and both Jennifer and Gretchen commented on how obnoxious it was.\nFirst Meal - another iPod movie on pause. “Our selections for this meal are Steak or Curry Chicken,” on the PA. 20 minutes later (remember, row 60)… only Curry Chicken left. It sort of worked out. There was so much curry smell in the air, the steak would have tasted like curry. It wasn’t bad for airline food, but it wasn’t “good” either.\nOctober 13 Flying Over North East Asia\nOn two of my leg stretching walks around the cabin - I took some pictures out one of the massive exit door windows. One of those - maybe two and a half hours out of landing, I got a picture of what looked like a forest fire, except on what basically looked like dark brown desert.\nI give up on movies after two and a half, and finally decide maybe I’ll try to sleep for real. 10 minutes later, snack time is announced. Chinese noodle bowl (pretty much Ramen Noodles with a few “actual” vegetables). After snack, I tried to snooze a little, and then more in flight movie problems made everyone restless.\nI slept for about 15 minutes. Pure exhaustion.\nMeal two (also lunch). Choices this time was a Turkey and Cheese on a Pretzel roll, or some sort of Chicken and Noodle thing. I got my choice, and … the Turkey and Pretzel roll were fine, but the Cheese was really greasy making the whole meal hard to stomach.\nI slept another 5 minutes - I think - then the descent starts.\n","wordCount":"468","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2007-10-14T04:00:00+08:00","dateModified":"2007-10-14T04:00:00+08:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><bodyid=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><headerclass=header><navclass=nav><divclass=logo><ahref=https://blog.vollink.com/accesskey=htitle="Home (Alt + H)"><imgsrc=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gifalt=logoaria-label=logoheight=35>Home</a>
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