All,
Just headed out for a 2-week Viking cruise from Hong Kong to Tokyo. As those who have followed Berlin’s Wall for a while, you might remember some of my earlier cruise adventures–snakes, spiders, Pyramids, castles, forts, and, oh yeah, getting swept overboard into the Atlantic Ocean.
This trip may be tamer.😉
The bad news is that the frigging flight from JFK to Hong Kong takes 16 hours. That is a LONG time to be stuck in a seat, even for someone without ADD 🙂
(The good news is that they don’t have hockey on TV here in Hong Kong–winter sport/no winters here) so I am getting spared from watching my Sabres get demolished by the Montreal Canadians)
We got in around 9:30 last night and will board the ship this morning, so we won’t get to see much of Hong Kong. I’ve been here a few times, both for work and to visit Derek when he worked and lived here for JPMorgan Chase. It’s an incredible place. Very compact but home to 7.5 million people (just under NYC’s population and double LA’s). Yet somehow the city is safe. It is quiet. And it is super clean. We should figure out how there is no garbage on the streets anywhere here and try to see if we can improve the look and feel of our cities. With 7.5 million people, you’d think there would be trash everywhere, but I took a walk around at 3 am this morning (jetlag) and 1. Safe and 2. Clean.
Interesting. I’ll report more as we go.
In the words of the ex-CEO and now inimitable “Chairman” of LP…
Onward! -Jim Berlin
PS–Happy Mother’s Day to all you lovely LP moms 😘
