You're welcome to follow me in my travels to China! I hope to keep you informed on my daily adventures and misadventures! Since my use of the Chinese language is less than mamahuhu, I'm sure there will be plenty of misadventures to keep you amused! Thanks for travelling with me, and I miss you all from home already!



Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Will China ACTUALLY be happening?


This question was commonly asked for many hours of January 19, 2010, only 12 day before our planned departure! Yesterday I thought there was a mere 50/50 shot of being able to go due to the incompetence of the US Passport Center. I will not bore you with the details unless you're dying to know. But I can tell you that if you're ever travelling overseas, please talk to me first! I've been on a hamster wheel of runarounds with the passport center. It's the mst poorly run establishment, getting nothing done, FAST! The workers at the Chinese Consulate actually has the right idea by pretending not to speak a word of English. That way, unsuspecting travellers will just cover their own butts and get 1o visas if need be! The workers at the Passport Center on the other hand, have too much to say, and none of it actually gets you anywhere! It's simply a hotline for you to rant about the issues with your passport. Don't bother! Call me instead, and I'll have the appropriate information for you. I had to learn it the hard way. Hopefully in the next 11 days I will be in coach comfort with my blowup air pillow, ipod and compression socks! Wish me luck!

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