Ch 37: When You Absolutely, Positively Need to Get There FAST

Aug 5

In travel you do a lot of estimation. Estimation on how much things should cost, estimations on how long this trip or that walk will take. Sometimes you are close and sometimes you are really wrong. On Aug 5 we were really long. Really wrong on when we should wake up (time) and really wrong on how far the Shanghai Pudong airport was from the Hostel (Distance). It was the perfect storm of being wrong and what a better time to have it then on our last day...


We rushed as soon as we understood the extent of our mistakes. I thought we had a very slim chance of making it out... until the Hostel hostess suggested going to the Maglev. Brilliant I thought! What is the Maglev you might be thinking? Only the fastest frickin train on the planet. Maglev rides on magnets and doesnt touch the rails one bit making for a frictionless ride. What luck, on the day we needed the fastest train on the planet we just happened to be in the only city on Earth that had it! A few minutes later we were launching our way to the airport travelling at 431 km/hr (237 mph).

So once again, luck saves the day... I just wish I could bottle this stuff up.