5:30 in the morning. It is once again time to leave Chengdu and head to Hong Kong and then New York. When it comes time to leave Chengdu I always want to stay, just for a few more days, a week, a month. Since going to Tibet for one month in 2007 this trip now to Chengdu has been the best vacation since then. The most relaxing, the most enjoyable and with the best of friends. So long Chengdu.........until the Spring. Well, that was the good bye but what about yesterday? Monday morning started off slow with a breakfast of instant beef noodles - well boiled. We finally went out after 1:00 for lunch at a local Sichuan restaurant and waited for a call from a collector. The call didn't come. Leaving the restaurant we headed
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