If there has ever been a city on this trip that I can feel pretty certain I never will live in, or want to live in, Chongqing is it. We have been to seven Asian countries on this trip, plus Hong Kong and Macau. That is a list of many different languages, cultures, religions, and foods. One of the questions we get asked most frequently by people is how do you communicate if you don’t speak the language? We answer that we try to learn a few words like hello, please, and thank you. Then, we just wing it. In most places we can find someone who speaks enough English to help us out. We point a lot, at pictures of food on a restaurant wall or on a menu. We use hand signals for numbers,
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