Note on Hangzhou

I referred to Hangzhou as a "resort city" to Shanghai and i should point out that the city proper has about 2 million residents with nearly 7 million living in the area as a whole. I just took a walk on the famous Westlake and saw a statue of my goomba, Marco Polo. There was a quote from one of his notes at the base of the statue calling this city the most beautiful in the world. It is nice and IT IS A CITY.

Americcan brands that I saw:
Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Starbucks and KFC are the biggies. It was the same in Beijing.

BTW - My Boeing post got posted by accident before I could entirely proofread it. Also, I was going to make the political rant an appendix. Sorry if my ideas are not clearly presented.

Not many caucasions in Hangzhou...visiting or otherwise. Get a lot of strange looks. Some smiles as well though!