My bus ride down was a very interesting way to spend three hours. The route out of Shanghai led through some incredible suburbs (ever wonder where a billion people live, actually?) and past some incredibly huge factories and incredibly tiny farms. We then crossed the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, which spans 36 kilometers and better than halves the trip.

Yesterday was Shanghai. Some taxi hijinx (put it this way: if I'd been in the other cab it might have been even harder to get my roll-aboard back) delayed things a bit but I had much of the second half of the day to skim the city. I started at the Bund, above, with the old architecture at photographer's rear and Pudong through the lens. Then down NanJing Road, the equivalent of Fifth Avenue, to People's Square, north to Tomorrow Square, and west west west back to the hotel. Probably too much walking but I think that will wane when official business starts in a few hours.