A Snowy Send Off

When the most difficult leg of a journey is within 30 miles of your home town, it kind of makes you wonder why you live there in the first place.  Of course it also confirms your departure at the same time. So with that blessing, we left for Shanghai, China and points beyond on Sunday afternoon.  Travel to JFK was amazingly smooth and easy, as New Yorkers took it easy on a chilly Sunday evening.  East China Airways or China Eastern Airways or something like that provided adequate transportation directly to Shanghai Pudong Airport.  The mustache seems to be making a big comeback with the Chinese men on the flight.  We noted several varieties of 'staches with style points doubled for anything waxed or resembling Magnum PI. Normally we travel with some knowledge of the spoken and/or written language.  That is not the case here.  In our ignorance we started making primitive word associations to try and remember what some of the characters mean.  So, if you see a cactus and a T.V., that means EXIT.   Of course the days of luxury overseas airline travel died somewhere over Siberia on a day no one can recall, but we did receive a souvenir wet nap to wipe up with and a pat on the rear on the way out the door.  Overall a completely unremarkable trip half way around the world.