I’m safe in China. It’s been a pretty long trip so far, and we’re not even halfway through. Arrived in Beijing Friday afternoon and stayed there for the night after meeting up with Dad and our assistant/sales guy. Got to walk around a “walking street” which was pretty much just a closed off road with tons of shops and things. Pretty cool. The next day we were up bright and early to go back to the airport, this time going to Dalian (大連). We worked there pretty intensely until this morning, when we got on a 9 hour (yes that’s not a typo) train to Tangshan (唐山). The train was a pretty awful experience overall, but there are so many good stories that it will get its own blog post sometime in the near future. Also at lunch today with one of our clients, I added 2 things to the “Animals Anthony has Eaten” list that I probably would rather not have…

I’ll write more later but right now it’s late and I need to get up early tomorrow.