Hong Kong Trip

The girl and I are waiting for the subway... We made an effort to use all the different forms of mass transit. I have been on subways in many different cities and countries.

HK has one too, but it is like no other. The trains are so long that the gradual curvature of the track prevents you from seeing one end of the train to the other. The train cars are connected seemlessly. Larger and more quiet, clean, fast, and efficient than anything I have ever experienced.

The is a 100 year old trolly system which is virtually free on the streets. The taxis are standardized and regulated. The expressways are all elevated. The buses have right of way. The ferries criss-cross the bay as if in some weirdly timed dance. All the while people stream to and from city orifices and buildings.

The insides of the buildings are as extreme as the outside. This is the inside of HSC bank building downtown. After all 11 of us going up the escalator and taking a few quick photos, we had to explain to police what we were doing seeing that we were not bank customers. 98% of the people in HK are Chinese. There are some ex-pats, but very few relative to the whole population.


There are many parks in Hong Kong. They are often not kid friendly and consist of paths and gardens with security and fences. At this fountain in the Charter Park we are trying to line up the kids for a group photo that never came together.

The architecture is absolutely astounding. Tall and slender is the starting concept. And there is construction going on all around all the time. Old buildings crumble in the 90% humidity while brand new building are constructed immediately next to them. There seems to be no regulation or plan. Pure capitalism unleashed and expressed



Here we hit the streets of Hong Kong mounted on our virtually indestructable family urban assault vehicle - the Pergo Peregonator. Hong Kong has over 20 Million people on a mountainous island the size of Rhode Island.

There is shopping mall after shopping mall and resataurant after restaurant. We could eat at a different restaurant every meal for a year and never see the same person twice!