My family is looking haggard after burning the midnight oil for the past few days getting prepared to leave for China. After a couple of hours sleep, we pile into the hired car for a two hour drive from Sacramento to San Francisco International Airport to catch an eleven a.m. flight to Beijing. Flight time is estimated to be ten hours, forty minutes. The contingent from Michigan has a much more trying schedule: Drive from Muskegon to Grand Rapids. Fly from there to Chicago. Change planes for a flight to Beijing with a stopover in Narita (Tokyo’s International airport), Japan.
Beijing, Xinjiang Province and Shanghai