We're In China!

After 38 long hours of travel, we are finally in China! We got to the hotel at 4 pm on Sunday.

Stats from the trip:
Total travel time from home to hotel: 38 hours
Airports: 2
Planes: 3
Buses: 2
Cars: 2

We had bad luck with airline seating, and were very thankful to end the plane travel, at least for a week. Amazingly, our baggage made every flight along with us and was among the first off the plane.

Our driver was waiting for us at baggage. Driving here is every bit as scary as we’ve heard—lane markers mean nothing to anyone, there are very few traffic signals, and cars, busses, trucks, bikers, and pedestrians all converge on the streets at once. It’s a chaotic dance of human masses. Cutting off everyone—including police—is normal. We came within inches of having one bumper or another sheared off by a bus or car more times than I could count.

Our biggest priorities once we got to the hotel were food and sleep -- everything else could wait until morning.