Pre-New Year Adventure
My Second Chinese Lunar New Year in the city, a very different new year...This time I have my girlfriend, my own rental apartment and we made our own dumplings to celebrate the Spring Festival. The auspicious year of pig has arrived - to quite some people back home, a year to raise a "golden pig" (babies)!! There are apparently tens of thousand more people lining up for Beijing alone; even Hong Kong requires the visiting mainland expectant mothers (the recently hot topic) to provide proof of hospital reservation before granting access to them at the border - to avoid non-residents flooding the local maternal care resources.
Something very excited I did to "prepare" the new year was a road trip to Florida from New York - a 17-hour driving journey with my co-worker. Our flight scheduled to Orlando was canceled due to the snowing condition in the Northeast and we decided we want to look up in MapQuest and headed down to our client meeting, with a rental car. I missed a couple of times to do these kinds of roadtrip with my American roommate before, and who knows now the opportunity just showed up to me instantly. Cruising through DC and 10 states including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, was an amazing experience even though it was tiring and the overnight driving was a little harsh.
posted by CalvinCK @ 11:59 PM
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