1. Currency exchange, Logan Airport (US, Aussie, China, Japan)
2. Flight path for the 787 from Boston to Tokyo
3. Fancy remote for movies, games, eBooks, etc.
4. Airplane food, according to JAL
1. Dreamliner wingspan
2-6. Electric window dimmer/polarizer
7 below. Looking south toward Fairbanks from the Alaskan Arctic coastline around 2pm
1. After dehydration, there's nothing like drinking a little sweat (electrolytes)
2. Beijing from the air (9pm)
3. Beijing airport subway train. Notice "domestic" departures in international terminal.
1-4. My guide, Benjian Lv, takes me for a tour of his Beijing Normal University.
1. Ginko leaves.
2. City bus, Beijing.
3. New (and huge!) Beijing West Railway Station. (Our train hit 300km/hr.)
1. Shijiazhuang is a zoo of construction cranes!
2-3. My hotel room at the campus hotel.
4. View from my room to Arts building under construction and sports fields. Pollution level low that day.
1. Monday's dinner buffet.
2. Tatsuya Ikuta, Mrs. Ikuta, Akihiro Munemasa, Jianmin Ma.
3. Etsuko Bannai, Eiichi Bannai, Yaokun Wu, Yinfeng Zhu, Jongyook Park, Mitsugu Hirasaka, unknown (back to camera).
4. Paul Terwilliger.