I made it back from my trip Friday night. Overall it went pretty well.

First I was in Chengdu, China from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon. Chengdu is the capital of the Sichuan provence in southwest China, famous for all the good, spicy Chinese food.

Here is a pic of the system I went to train the customers to use.


On Sunday morning we went to a museum with 4,000 year old artifacts found by a farmer in 1929, mostly bronze. This one is a replica.


Outside view of one of the museum buildings.


This waterfall is on the grounds of the museum.


The restaurant where we ate lunch.


On Sunday afternoon I left Chengdu for Hong Kong, and stayed there until Friday afternoon.

Here is the view out my hotel window. The park is for the apartment towers adjacent to the hotel.


Here is a picture of the hotel and adjoining mall. On this side you entered the hotel through the mall. It rained pretty much the whole time I was there.


Every night they have a light show across the harbor, lasers and building lights flashing. I was on the Kowloon Island side, this is a view of the Hong Kong Island side.


View of Hong Kong Island during the day.


The avenue of stars has handprints of Hong Kong movie stars in the concrete on this walkway out over the water.


Statue of Bruce Lee on the Avenue of Stars.


Clock tower. It probably has some story, but I don't know it.


Museum of Art.


Near where I was staying and working there were no sidewalks, just bridges and tunnels.


Miscellaneous street shots.






One night it was so humid the camera couldn't take a clear picture. It wasn't raining or foggy, the air was just saturated.


bBlover asked for car pics, so here they are.

This chinese microvan is about the size of an xB without the hood, only about a foot narrower.


"Full-sized" vans in Hong Kong.



The world's only cool minivan, Toyota Alphard. I saw a bunch of these.



bB I saw inside the fire station. I was afraid to go inside the gate to get better pictures.


I saw this bB driving down Canton street and just happened to have my camera in my hand. It went past and I ran down the street like a crazy person trying to get closer, but the light turned green and I missed it. Check out the wheels and body kit with dual exhaust.




Next trip is to Denver in a couple weeks, so I probably won't get any good pics there.

 

dang the landscaping is way better over there then it will be over here !!!

 

Glad you had fun and made it back safely. I really enjoy the pics of the bB. awesome. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.

 

great pics!!

 

awesome pics!! thanks for sharing

 

Thx for sharing those awesome pics with us. My wife and i really liked the scenery shots of the buildings...Very cool place, looks like fun......

 

It looks amazing over there, would love to make it over there some day. Thanks for sharing the pics.

 

Sweet pics.. i would like to see that light show... im easily amused... i watch the water show at the bellagio for hours

 

Very cool, thanks!

 

Looks like you had alot of fun there.. Nice pics!!!!!!!!!!!

 

looked like ya had a blast... bB was sweeeeeeeeeeet, and i would rock one of those full size vans in a heart beat...

if you dont mind me asking, what does that machine do that you had to train people on?

 

Wow! great pics, some came out a little fuzzy but that happens to me all the time .


this picture makes me wanna go there...its weird it looks computer generated

 

what exactly is that

 

Great pix...... That Toyota mini van is cool..

 

are you from HK dudehitt, i am from HK too, haven't been back for a 2 years now, I miss that place, most everything there as cheaper than here at the states

 

Hong Kong is tough for those building shots because everything is so close together. That's usually what I take the most pics of, but I think I only have a couple more. It was pretty cool, but I think if I had a choice to visit for fun I would pick Taiwan because there is more than just city.

 

haha my parents are from HK too and i just showed these pix and they were astounded. HK changed so damn much after these years...

 

The cabinet in the center generates up to 20,000 psi pressure in two systems, one for confining the rock specimen to simulate the pressure down in the ground. The other is for applying pressure to the inside of the rock specimen. The big silver cylinder inside the frame on the right holds the pressure and a rock specimen. The frame is used to apply load to the rock to test it's strength. Basically, the system breaks rocks.

 

I think most of the fuzziness is from the water in the air. The humidity was 95-96% the entire time I was there and it rained every day but Friday.

That picture was taken through my hotel window, so you can see reflections on the inside of the glass.

 

That is a garden on the roof of a shopping mall. The towers on the right are apartment buildings on the back of the mall.