Finally on Asian mainland (and freezing)
March 10th 2006 My flight to Beijing was uneventful and the plane was only 1/4 full at most, which was fabulous. Getting the Chinese visa and Japanese reentry permit had been hellish experiences that I was trying to put behind me. I had almost forgotten about all those hours sitting in immigration with hundreds of other people until I hit immigration in the Beijing airport. The guy behind the counter took an awfu
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