We Were Definitely In(n), and It Was an “Interesting” Holiday!
“New Rules” (with apologies to Bill Maher):
We are fortunate that our hotel quarantine stay was only five days, with the next three in the apartment we have for the duration. If no apartment, hotel quarantine would have been eight. This is the most recent regulation for quarantine when traveling to Beijing. I think! Right now, the situation is changing daily. But we are done.
Who Goes to China Now?
The Answer to the Question
Only a Nainai (Chinese for grandma on children’s dad’s side) and Yeye (Chinese for grandpa, ditto). Our granddaughters Mirah (just 5) and Rivah (2.5+) and their parents, Jonathan and Amy, live in Beijing. The pandemic deprived us of seeing them for two years. They did finally visit in Milwaukee this summer, a taste of being back together that only whetted the appetite for more. Before COVID, when Mirah was a baby and toddler, we made a point of seeing them a lot, between their trips to the US, ours to China, and a few vacations elsewhere. Rivah was a 2020 COVID-era baby, so we missed her progression from four months to over two.
A Break in the (Great) Wall of Chinese Visa Prohibitions
A Journey Begins: Who’s it all about? What’s it all about?
No, not “Alfie.”
Monday morning (December 3, 2012) at Hong Kong airport. We lost Sunday to the International Dateline.
My website has an “About” page that’s about me from the standpoint of my writing, how I got to be where I am today as an author of a novel. But that’s not all there is about me, and even what I am about is not all about me. Got that? Let me try to explain.