Thanksgiving Day or who has my luggage?

Trip Start Nov 05, 2008
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Trip End Nov 30, 2008

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

We are on the 43rd floor of the Conrad Hotel in Hong Kong. The hotel is a flagship for the entire Hilton chain. Thanks to my Hilton Honors points Ginger and I are staying for free. We have a great view of downtown Hong Kong and the harbor. There is no way that we would ever pay for this hotel but this is my reward for working. It sounds like everything is perfect, and it is, except either Singapore Air or Silk Air have lost my luggage.

I have only the clothes that were on my back at the time of boarding the plane in Siem Reap. I look like a pauper at a royalty convention. It is appearing that as each hour passes the bag is more lost than misplaced. My c-pap breathing machine is also in the bag along with the clothes Ginger and I had made in Vietnam. We have been forced to wash clothes every night and dry them with hair dryers and irons. I do the washing and squeezing the water out and Ginger does drying. I was doing the drying until the hairdryer became so hot I burned my hand. Anyway enough about my problems.

Hong Kong is really a vibrant busy city. It equals or exceeds NYC in intensity except less horn blowing. The buildings are huge and beautiful. We took a ferry over to Kowloon yesterday and again last night. We went over yesterday morning to see the Nathan Road "Golden Mile" of eating and shopping. A lot of it was out of our price range. We went back again last night to see the light show that is put on a 8:00PM each night on the Hong Side of the harbor. The buildings on the HK side all light up and lasers flash etc. It was cool. We made it back to the hotel and then did our washing. Ginger and I were so tired last night that we ate fruit from our complimentary tray for dinner.

Today, Thaksgiving Day, we plan to visit the Giant Buddah, take the tram to "The Peak", ride on a Chinese Junk and have dinner in Kowloon. Tomorrow we leave for home. We will be spending two nights in San Francisco to catch up with ourselves after going through the reverse "time warp" thing before returning to Nashville.

Happy Thanksgiving.
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