Traveling in China

Hello everyone I am back. I just got back from a trip visiting my old teacher from K-state she lives in Wuhan which is about 600 miles east of here. Because I just spent the last part of the week traveling I thought I would share some stories about traveling alone in China. First off my best piece of advice I can give is do not fly on China eastern airlines. I have flown with them twice and neither of them have been a lot of fun. I flew with them on the way to Wuhan it was the worst flight I have ever had. There was a guy in my row who did not stop coughing the entire time and there where babies crying it was not fun. That was not the worst part though that is when twice while flying we hit turbulence that caused my stomach to have that sinking feeling like you are on roller coaster or on the Haynes lake road on. This was compounded by people on the plane screaming which made it more terrifying because I could hardly understand what anyone on the plane was saying. It was a rather interesting adventure. While traveling in China I have to use a lot of taxis. Which is an adventure in itself these guys can drive with any one that drives on a nascar track on Sunday afternoons. Places where you would never even think of trying to fit in these guys drive through it no problem. I have seen them make a left turn from the far right lane. If that sounds dangerous that is because it is. Trafficd lights are more like suggestions than actually enforcable laws. Even though I see this kind of driving every day I could probably count on one hand the number of accidents I have seen which is amazing. The scariest cab rides are the one where the driver is really getting into and weaving in and out of cars and really moving and then we get to a stoplight and he puts his seatbelt on. Which is fine but then when you are in the back seat you look for your seatbelt and you find that it does not exist that is when I tend to get nervous. Anyway I am sure this is topic a will return to later but I thought I would share some of the fun things that happened to me this weekend.