Saturday, August 15, 2015

On the Night Train

8/2/15 


Fortunately, the Mexican uncle and his nephew came to China with a full stock of medications, just in case. (NN: The uncle’s dad is a doctor of internal medicine so they were sent fully prepared. About 3 different medicines for stomach ailments. Thanks so much to them!) So they were nice enough to give me some aspirin to try and break the fever. Weak and wasted from the day, I skipped dinner and spent a feverish night in the hotel room while Nick and a few others went off to ride the MagLev high speed train.

Chinese subways are CROWDED
Shanghai Subway
MagLev Security

(NN: So we took the subway to the MagLev station which was a riot in itself. For a Sunday night it was pretty crowded. Then the door opens about 5 stops from where we need to be and the French-Canadian starts exiting the train. We had to call him back and all had a good laugh, including the Chinese passengers. The MagLev was awesome, we were traveling 301 kmph (186 mph)! The cars traveling at maybe 60 mph besides us looked like they were stopped.)

MagLev Cars 
MagLev
301 km/h!!
Train Safety
This is how Chinese men cool off - very sexy



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