August 8-9, 2010 - China via Bus, Taxi, Plane

                  

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

~Orson Welles

There are too many people in China. There are too many people on the planet. But, there are way too many people in China. China’s middle class is on a dramatic rise, all wanting a comparable life to the US’s ridiculous consuming middle class. Planet Earth cannot accommodate consumption on such a massive level. Where will the resources come from?

At 5:30am on August 8th, I began the first of seven connections to travel home. Four hours on a bus from Wuhan, back to downtown Yichang. A one hour taxi to the local airport. A two hour flight to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. Another one hour bus to the Shanghai Pudong International Airport. Sleep for six hours on an airport bench. Two hour flight to Seoul, South Korea. Eleven hour flight to Seattle. One hour flight to Oregon.

5:30am August 8th in China is 3:30pm August 7th in Oregon. Forty-eight hours later, 3:30pm August 9th PST… home.

I’m already counting the days until back in China.