now I am on a super of my superist luxury of more luxurious train ride - it’s the D103 - the super quick soft bed train!
this is 700RMB - about $100 from Shanghai to Beijing - an 8 hour ride with personal tv’s that work on each bed!
they also give you headphones and a bottle of water. i am watching some movie with Will Smith and his son - something about finding Happiness? Don’t know the title.

Jinge and I thought we could splurge a little since I have been on 4 other train rides in the last 6 days

june 4th - Sacramento to San Francisco
june 6th - Bejing to Shanghai
june 8th - Shanghai to Wuhan
June 11th - Wuhan to Shanghai
June 13th - Shanghai to Beijing

- so on this special 5th train ride I figure that I should go out with a bang before I settle down in Beijing for 2 months. I was excited to be on a super clean train with no bugs and mosquitos.

I am so looking forward to arriving in Beijing - to having a place that I can call home.
I haven’t been in one city for more than 1 week at a time. Actually the longest since October 2008 was when I was in in NYC for 2 weeks in early march. other than that - I’ve been moving and flying -

so beijing here i come!