THe trip started out, as usual, with my giri giri ways (aka., always just barely on time!): Even though I made it to the airport early, when I went through security and was asked, excuse me miss, do you have a knife? i had to admit yes, to the swiss army knife I accidently stashed in my carry on. I ran to the check in counter to check my carry on bag with my knife so I could go through security. Done! Well, not 10 seconds later did i remember I had also placed my cell phone in my carry on, which held the entire contents of my beijing life in its phone book, in an open pocket with no zipper - surely it would be lost in its travels to Guilin. I ran back to
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