Well, seeing as how there is about 90 minutes left on the flight from Beijing to San Francisco, this is, by definition, the last post written during transit on our honeymoon.

I'm a bit sad that the whole month has come to a close -- but there are exciting things coming up, so I'm looking forward to those and moving on with various life events.

This flight has been reletively long.  The sleepy pills only made me miss the end of the first movie that was on.  After that, I was restlessly tired for hours.  I must have slept some more, though, because I don't recall having been sitting around bored for the last 8 hours. 

I never really got on to Beijing time.  The laptop (which is still doing great) says it's 1:40am on Oct 2, but I'm not terribly tired at the moment.  After switching back to our normal time zone, we're now at about 10:40am on Oct 1.  Neither of those times feel right to me.  Getting un-jet lagged is going to be lots of fun.

As Laurie has just mentioned, one thing we're really looking forward to is getting of the planes.  The air is way too dry, the seats are largerly way too uncomfortable, and this particular flight started with the cabin being way too hot.  Most of the planes we've been on have not had invididual air controls, too, which just makes matters worse.  This plane right now doesn't even have overhead light control.  The lights are there but invidiual buttons can't turn them on and off.

All things considered, though, both of us feel relatively healthy right now.  Neither of us are feelin 100%.  I missed going to see the Great Wall because of really not feeling well before.  Laurie got to see it and she really enjoyed it.  We'll be returning to see it as well as other sights and other locations of the Great Wall.

Overall, we've really enjoyed our trip complete with all of it's changes.  Except for the extra long transit from South Africa to China, the changes were an overall improvement from what we can tell.  While we were at the airports in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok the rain was torrential.  This would have put a big damper on our photography and hiking.

The weather in Beijing, on the other hand, was very interesting.  It reminded me a lot of Atlanta, although a bit warmer.  Most days were very hazy and comfortably warm.  We did have at least one clear day.  The haze appeared to be from humidity, but we're also sure there was plenty of regular smog in it... though not nearly as bad on the clear day (nothing like Nairobi).

Posted by Shane on October 2, 2006 1:34 AM | Permalink