Hong Kong

Hi all I'm here in HK still for the rest of today. Yesterday I walked and walked and walked. I saw alot but good grief I am soo tired today. I missed my bus into the city and I'm actually relieved. I am tired of travelling so fast to so many places. Today I want my job back and a steady life and to be near my family and friends. I'm sure the feeling will pass once I am rested but for the moment I am a bit crabby and tired. It is cold here in HK, well relatively that is. I tried taking a shower last night after all my sight seeing and stuff. Oh my gosh! Huge mistake! The water icy and the air was worse I proptly jumped out and went to bed stinky. One joy of travelling alone is that there is no one to care if I smell bad or have proper hygene accept myself. There are actually many joys to travelling alone, there is a great freedom to it. Unfortunately I have one 2 minutes left here on the net so I dont have time to fill in on all the details of my time here, maybe later at the airport I'll add on. In any case, thanks again to all who are writing to me and sorry I havent always been able to wrte back! Take care all

Haha, so its later at the airport and I have free net...not working very well but still free......

So let's see here....Yesterday: I walked a lot as I already said. My hostel was located on HK Island near Victoria peak. I took the hostel bus down into Wetern district. Hong Kong is extremely tourist friendly and they have walking tour booklets you can pick up. They are easy to follow and the streets also have big signs pointing to all tourist attractions and trasporation options. (Needless to say this is a HUGE change from all the other places I've been lately!) Anyhow, so I walked the wester district and central district tours then I took the star ferry across to Kowloon Island and walked the Star Avenue, and then all the way up Stanley street where there are a bunch of markets. I have never been anywhere are densly populated and full of skyscrapers in my life! It is overwhelming and quite amazing. After that I took the ferry back to HK Island and then made my way to the Peak Tram and rode it up to the top of the peak. Quite a view from up there, I bought so way too pricy Haagen Dass ice cream and did yet another walking tour around the top of the peak. It was georgeous - I started at dusk and was still walking it at sunset and was on the side of the peak facing central
HK when it got entirely dark. It was so amazing to see all the lights. Then I stayed on the peak until 8pm when they have a lights show where many of the main buildings light up in cool displays all at the same time. It was pretty good but not as phemomenal as everyone said it was. There is a sound show that goes with it but I didnt have a radio. Yeah, so I was pretty well exhausted, I basically ran back to the hostel bus in order to not have to wait another 2 hours. I made it on time. I ate McDs for lunch and dinner...they are everywhere here!! I would have tried local cuisine but I nearly vomitted everytime I walked past a food stall there. I dont know why exactly, but when I saw the obscure dried sea food parts, tanks of live sea food and unidentifiable objects I just couldnt do it. I totally wimped out. Oh well. Ok so then today, I didn want to be in the city again so instead I took a different ferry boat to Lamma Island and did the walking tour there. They said it would be an hour and a half of gentle slopes...LIARS! There was nothing gentle about those trails! (It probably didnt help that I walked 15 miles the day before!) Anyway, it was beautiful too. I saw star fruit growing on trees. That was pretty awesome! Thats about all I did today. I'm so tired I just want to get a good nights sleep..on a bed with a real mattress. Have I mentioned that I havent slept on an American style cushy gushy mattress since I left? That sounds so lovely right now. Other countries, or maybe its just hostels apparently dont believe in soft is for sleeping, mattresses are hard and thin. Oh well, I've usually been so tired it doesnt make a difference and I sleep anyway. Oh yeah! Today marks one month of my great big Gungula!! Who ha! Now on to Australia Can't wait!!!

So I arrived today in HK, a bit later than originally planned, I switched my flight to one a little later in the day. So I arrived here a few hours back and took 2 buses to my hostel. HK is beautiful at night, the little I've seen of it. My hostel is on HK Island and the airport is on Lantau so it was about an hour away. It is so awesome - my hostel is on the top of a peak - it took 10 minutes to wind our way up to mountain and it is the only building up here, with a great view of the city lights and some water - not sure exactly what it is yet! I'm exhausted so I'll write more later. My last day in Bangkok was great too but I'l save writing about it for later. Take care and goodnight all.

Hi All! I just arrived at HK International airport after a 15 somethin hour flight. I am doing great. I am on a total high and coudnt really sleep much on the plane. Though I have to say I totally lucked out and got a window seat with a whole row to myself so I got to spead out and relax and watch movies allday/niht...whatever time it is. I can't really figure out if I should be hungry or sleepy or what, but in any case I am happy. The first two flights went fine as well, I have no real complaints The biggest thing that went wrong is that I lost on of the earrings I was wearing that my grandma gave me. (Oh yeah and I forgot my fake wedding band at home...oops... so I guess I'll switch a ring to that finger. It was dark the whole flight from LA to HK because we were flying "into the dark" (I'm too tired to figur out a more intelligent way of saying that!) Then as we were about to land I got to see the sun rise. It was so cool. the plane kept making its decent through layers of white clouds and you could kind of see through them to the ocean and islands below. It was hard to tell land from sky from sea. So my first impression of HK is good. It is unreal to be here. I am writing from a free cyber cafe in the airport and my hotmail isnt working here, but hopefully soon. I have one more flight..about 7 hours from now that will take me to Bombay. That one is about 8 hours I think. I'm off to try to find the shower lounge...I feel a bit sticky. I cant wait to see someone I know! (I have "seen" so many people I know in the airports...just wishful thinking, hoping to see a familiar face!) Until then, love you all and talk to you later.