Today I believe marked the official start of my “Walk About ‘08” adventure…and a slightly auspicious start it was. To explain that first let me digress one day to Saturday the 29th, which until today, was the day I thought I supposed to fly to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia thus marking the start of WA08. I got up at 6AM, caught a taxi at 7 for a 9:30 flight, and sat back for the one hour drive to the airport. Upon trying to check in I was asked, rather shyly and phonetically, by the cute little Chinese girl behind the desk, “uhm, very sorry sir, you know today Saturday…you know your ticket for Sunday”? To which I responded, rather stupidly and phonetically, “uhm…oh…ah….sheshe”, and left for what would be a one cab ride back to Xintiandi. Now all
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