Sometimes, reality surpasses even the most gifted author's attempt at fiction....Sometimes, reality surpasses even the most gifted author's attempt at fiction. For me, the Globerider's tour starts and ends in Seattle, WA - a WESTBOUND circumnavigation of the globe by plane, bus, and motorcycle (the latter of course, predicated on our passing our Chinese driver's license test, otherwise, it will be a journey by plane, bus, and ... foot!).

Today, we flew from Narita, Japan on Japan Airlines flight no. 733, bound for Hong Kong. From Hong Kong, we took a bus to Shenzhen, China. Imagine how bemused I was to discover the name of the bus line servicing this route - their ticket counter sign is shown below - I'm not making this up:

[I really hope they have bathrooms on their buses....]

I can only hope they don't own a hotel chain - could you imagine checking into the "Eternal Rest Hotel"?