Welcome to yet another installment of
Person
On
The
Roooaad!!! (Ba-diam bum)
Before we start, you should know that have unified all my previous blogs into this one, so go ahead, look around - did you miss that time I almost got into a fight with two junkies in Madera? Remember when Julia lost her purse in Trinidad? Were you there when we got engaged in Puerto Rico? Make sure you haven't missed anything!
We're in China this time, visiting Julia's grandparents. We flew out of San Francisco and landed in Tokyo, and after a few hours we flew into Beijing where we were joined by Julia's dad, Tize (pronounced "TEE-tzeh"). Julia's mom, Fan, had already flown to her parents in Chengdu, so we'll meet her later. We took a bus that took us from the airport to the train station. The train would take us to Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, where Julia's paternal grandmother lives.
The train station plaza is huge and was packed with people, even right before midnight. We joined the swarm of people heading to our train. It's a sleeper train, so every car has 22 bunk beds, each with three beds.
You'd expect a train like this to become a giant snore-fest, but it was in fact pretty quiet. The only guy who was snoring really loudly was sleeping, naturally, in the bunk bed right next to me. Add to that the fact that I already got plenty of sleep on the plane, and that I was pretty jet-lagged, so I didn't get much sleep on the train.
Person
On
The
Roooaad!!! (Ba-diam bum)
Before we start, you should know that have unified all my previous blogs into this one, so go ahead, look around - did you miss that time I almost got into a fight with two junkies in Madera? Remember when Julia lost her purse in Trinidad? Were you there when we got engaged in Puerto Rico? Make sure you haven't missed anything!
We're in China this time, visiting Julia's grandparents. We flew out of San Francisco and landed in Tokyo, and after a few hours we flew into Beijing where we were joined by Julia's dad, Tize (pronounced "TEE-tzeh"). Julia's mom, Fan, had already flown to her parents in Chengdu, so we'll meet her later. We took a bus that took us from the airport to the train station. The train would take us to Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, where Julia's paternal grandmother lives.
The train station plaza is huge and was packed with people, even right before midnight. We joined the swarm of people heading to our train. It's a sleeper train, so every car has 22 bunk beds, each with three beds.
You'd expect a train like this to become a giant snore-fest, but it was in fact pretty quiet. The only guy who was snoring really loudly was sleeping, naturally, in the bunk bed right next to me. Add to that the fact that I already got plenty of sleep on the plane, and that I was pretty jet-lagged, so I didn't get much sleep on the train.
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