I must have been on the ground too long

I'm trying to remember my last trip. I think it was the US back in July. Wow! I haven't flown for 8 weeks? Must be about time then.

GP and I decided to go to Beijing (never been there) right before the national holiday (Oct 1-3). It will be a MADHOUSE traveling during the holiday, so we will go Sep 20-24. Originally we were going to do the overnight train, but my Oct 19th got too busy, then the 20th, so, we will fly the night of the 20th. Not too expensive and only about 2 hours flying time.

I was leaning towards modern, western hotels, but then I found this hutong this morning. Sounds good and about 70% of the Holiday Inn at the same distance from city center.

And, since I had 8 weeks on the ground, the gods of gotcha decided I need to do some extra flying. Emergency customer visit. Leaving Sunday morning for 1 day in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, to be exact). Six hours flying each way for a 1 hour meeting. As we say in China "the customer is the king". At least it's a new country for me :)