THURSDAY!   Admit it – you couldn’t wait.  You’re impatient and you lack impulse control.  You’ve been peeking all day waiting for this post.  YES – CHINA!  Folks, we hope you appreciate our two days of continuous travel and this last 14 hour flight to Shanghai to begin the Riding4Beer 2011 China Tour.   We don’t do it for ourselves, we do it all for you – we’re “givers.”

So here’s what happened when we finally stepped off the plane.   All the Chinese looking folks whizzed through customs and immigration in minutes while we had to stand forever in a line labeled, “Foreigners” – how humiliating!  Once at the desk, our passports and visas were scrutinized like a McDonald’s clerk looking for a bogus $20 dollar bill and we had to answer a ton of questions that makes that 3^rd grade math quiz we barely passed last week look easy!  Okay, the body cavity search was fun, but they didn’t even kiss us while they were doing it so it hardly counts as unprotected sex.

There is a payoff however.  Can you say, “Maglev?”  Let’s just say that getting from the airport into the city at 250 (NOT KIDDING) miles per hour is un-f’ing-believable.  It’s a “MAGnetic LEVitation” train that makes driving our 1986 Ford Taurus 45MPH on the freeway back home almost embarrassing.  Anyway, after wandering around the city for awhile we found a hostel in a back alley for $9 bucks a night just a block from the People’s Square.  After we fall dead asleep on our bedbug infested mat (not mattress), we plan on making some posters, heading to the Square and protesting prayer in school and cutbacks in Medicare.   Let’s see if the Red Guards are really as tough as they say….

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