Hong Kong

I began my adventure with a two day stop over in Hong Kong. The original reason for visiting Hong Kong arose with the idea of reuniting with two friends from my Mongolian horseback riding trip two years ago. Leo Murray is a former Williams College classmate who has lived in Hong Kong ever since college and organizes adventure trips to Mongolia, Myannmar/Burma, and Nepal and Jim is a Brit who has lived and worked in Hong Kong most of his life. We went out to supper at a Chinese restaurant in Kowloon, a “suburb” of Hong Kong where I met their Hong Kong wives Elaine and Betty. Elaine is 5 feet tall and a ton of character, educated as a social worker at University of Alabama and interned on the streets of Washington, DC. We discussed the concept of silence which neither of them had experienced growing up in crowded Hong Kong.

I also am meeting up with an old friend Richard Goodrich from Berkeley, California, a fellow traveler, who is on a trip to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. He and I are lovers of jazz and attended one day the International Hong Kong Jazz Festival held outdoors overlooking the harbor.

Hong Kong is fascinating, with vertical high rises on precious little land, densely populated, with lots of good restaurants and markets. I wish I had allotted more time for this visit to Hong Kong, but that will have to wait for another trip.












Mongolian Reunion - Jim, Leo, Howard, Betty, Elaine