Wow! 6 hrs. Charlotte-San Francicsco, a 5 hr. layover, 15 1/2 hrs. in the air, a 2 hr. layover in Hong Kong, 2 more hrs. in the air and we made it to Shanghai! Our friend, John, met us at the airport and were we glad to see him! He helped us navigate the MagLev. It's a superfast train (@300 miles/hr.) that took us to Pudong. Then a taxi to the Marriott. It's a nice place to crash. We did have lunch with John though and walked back about 2 1/2 miles to the hotel. The weather is great - about 58 degrees F.
A weird phenomenon we experienced - about 15 hrs. of darkness on the way over the Pacific. We kept flying away from the rising sun in the east.
-PN
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How do you know it was 2.5 miles? Don't they use the metric system?
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