DAY 6 [ Taipei >Hong Kong > Shanghai ] : Everybody Loves... Freebird?

We wake up at 6am pack fast, have a quick bite, say good bye to Uncle Moses and Auntie Allen and jump back on the Evergreen bus to the airport. I am so tired but not as much as Oki who's been managing to catch a lot more shut eye than me.

Although the lines are long, it goes fairly smooth and painless getting to the plane for the the short flight back to Hong Kong and then on to China.





We switch to Dragon Air in HK for the leg to Shanghai and I'm excited about new things to see. Shanghai is still considered Communist China. Will the inflight movie be an indoctrination video? ... no it means we get 'Everybody loves raymond' with Chinese subtitles and 'Freebird' by Lynard Skynard pumped through the headphones during taxi, takeoff and well into the flight. I forgot how damn long that song was.



The clean white plane had a giant graphic red dragon on it's tail and light blue / dark blue interior, was right out of a 60's lookbook. It even came with beautiful stewardesses english equvalent names like Jenny, Sue or Jane to complete the picture.