amazing race

Back from Hong Kong/Beijing/Shanghai. My travel buddy and I concluded that we should try out for Amazing Race after our adventure.

The trip was not relaxing. My style of traveling is more arduous because I rarely go with tours. I usually try to figure out what to do or how to get around by following local customs. Or as I like to say, stay where the rich people live and eat and travel as the working poor.

Of course, Beijing's working poor is much worse off than the working poor in many other countries, so we definitely ate and got around with some uncertainty. Our bus tour to the Great Wall topped the list; we were with people who spit out the window and their flour sacks of stuff. Poor L, she had no idea what she was getting herself into.

Still, I am proud of how we stay under budget and made it back safely. I am stronger and wise, and I definitely appreciate my life more with all my comforts and options.