China - Hong Kong

Oh wait, there's more! Our journey back home required an overnight in Hong Kong. Of course we could not sit in the airport hotel. Mark engineered a way for Carol, Ro and I to get into Hong Kong and meet up with one of their friends. What an adventure!! Who knew you not only needed Hong Kong dollars AND exact change to ride the 2 stops on an airport shuttle bus to get to the Marriott hotel, where Mark and Ro were staying. You can see the hotel from your room but impossible to walk to due to construction. Note to self if ever get back here. After 3 attempts to use the bus, we got on but did not have exact change. A very nice woman passenger funded our ride $7 HKD ( about 90 cents usd ) to get to the Marriott. The 4 of us set out to find the high speed train. Success! We made it to the train station in city central. Then, the challenge to find Shirley, not hard, harder to find out way out of the train station. Holy cats! What a multilevel maze! With the help of Shirley, phone gps and asking just about anyone, we found our way out and to the Hard Rock. Invaluable to have someone with us who speaks the local language. Whew. We had a nice dinner and beverage which cost about as much as what we spent on food and beverage total over the last 3 weeks. But it was fun. Tomorrow we fly home through Seoul. We land in Mpls before we take off from South Korea. Wild...
Thanks for traveling with us!

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