China, March 2017
We started our China vacation on the Metrolink train from Rancho Cucamonga in to Union Station in Los Angeles. From Union Station to LAX, we had to get on a BUS. The "Fly Away bus isn't too bad, but there really should be trains that go to all of the airports. I've heard that the reason trains like Metrolink don't go to the airports is that the taxi unions opposed them for obvious reasons. Well, their business is becoming history anyway -- for other obvious reasons -- so bring on the linking trains folks! (This beats the freeways as it is anyway.) The flight to China is so long. We first few to Seattle and from Seattle took a 12 hour flight to Beijing. For hours, the plane flew over Siberia...and, yup, this is what Siberia looks like....just the way you imagined it when your learned about Russian rebels and dissidents being sent there. This is a color photo and it was taken during the day. But, as you can see, the smog was thick and hid the beaut