Candy told me the people in Shanghai were different. She was right. Read on. When we rolled into Shanghai, I couldn't believe what it looked like. There were an incredible number of lit up buildings, cars, traffic, and people everywhere. What an incredibly big city. The tour guide said there were 20 million people in Shanghai. If that's true, then that's equal to the total population of the entire states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia combined. Of course, Beijing and Hong Kong were big crowded cities, too, and I have also been to Tokyo, but Shanghai was more of a madhouse. In China, there are 1.3 billion people, that's over 4 times the population of the US, and I believe it now. Wow. We checked into the hotel and had the evening free. On
... read more