Happy New Year!

If I can survive the next five hours or so, I'll have made it to 2011, and I'll probably have beaten you there.  But whenever you read this, happy new year!

Max making some kind of absinthe drink (Le Boudoir)

A reveler in Le Boudoir

Long way down (from a bar with a view)

Traffic and skyline

Greetings from HK!

Hello to all.  I'll be sporadically posting pictures and reports, notes, remarks, complaints, and so forth, for the next couple weeks.  (Then it's back to the good old USA.)


I write this entry from the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, using the free HK government wifi.  Here's a pic showing you my current view.  That's my laptop there, in lieu of me.

Pleasant spot, perfect weather, lots of people about.

So far, I've spent my my nights out with Dominik and his pals, wandering from restaurant to restaurant and bar to bar; I've spent my days recovering from said nights and wandering about by myself, snapping pictures and slowly expanding my area of acquaintance.