Jeff Sherlock arrived in Hong Kong

I’ve arrived in Hong Kong after an uneventful, but long, flight from Chicago. We landed about 4:15pm (4:15am EDT) about 30 minutes ahead of schedule. The 14 hour and 21 minute flight was, well, long. Apparently a lady a number of rows back had a seizure but a doctor on board kept checking on her throughout the flight and she seemed to be OK – slept nearly all of the flight. Due to fears of flu, probably 5-10% of passengers wore surgical masks throughout the flight and you see some people walking around Hong Kong with masks.

The flight flew north along the west coast of Hudson Bay, over the Arctic Ocean (or the far north Pacific), then dropped down over western Russia and China. It is worth taking a few pictures of the frozen wasteland.

This evening, I met a Taylor alum (Andrew Scruton-Wilson) for dinner, then acclimatized (translation: sweated buckets) by walking on the streets for a couple of hours. For a taste treat I hadn’t tried before, I had a blueberry sundae at McDonalds.

I’m heading over to Macau tomorrow and am looking forward to seeing the Academic Team and a few of the NESTers next week.

Thanks for thinking of us.