Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Day Two - morning jog

I had a good nights rests for the first night in a new time zone. I was able to sleep from about 11pm until 5am, which is pretty much my normal sleeping schedule. Since I was awake and had no where to be until 8am, I decided to go for a 7-mile run. I stopped at the front desk to ask for a map and the hotel address in case I got lost and the clerk looked at me like I was crazy! As I left the hotel the streets were pretty much empty except for a few taxi’s lined up outside the hotel. I decided to make my way down to the waterfront to the Star Ferry which is only a couple of blocks away. As I rounded the corner into the Ferry station there were at least 100 Chinese people working frantically to insert ads into the morning newspapers before loading them into vans. It was quite a site and needless to say I will be taking my camera tomorrow morning. I found a good route along the waterfront that was about 2 mile down and back on a pathway/boardwalk by the Hong Kong Cultural Center. I had a great view of downtown Hong Kong across the water as the sun was coming up. I was also happy to see quite a few other people jogging and walking!

4 comments:

rdmarriott said...

that is awesome...seeing those papers being stuffed remind you of your days with the Jo Co Gazette?

Mark Marriott said...

Russ,

I think you are the only one who has figured out how to post a comment.

Mark

rdmarriott said...

I know. I figured that others would be posting their thoughts as well but so be it. If I have more commets you can be sure i will post them...

Anonymous said...

Have you seen groups doing tai chi in the parks? This is fun to watch and maybe you can even join them.
Kathy S.