John and I will see the eclipse at center point on the Costa Classica ship. At the planned location, we'll see a 6 minute 39 second eclipse. Extra bonus, my good friend Kathy, who saw the 1998, 1999 and 2001 solar eclipses with me, will be joining us with her husband (also named John). We'll also be joined by our eclipse buddy, Lynn, who traveled on the same 2008 China Solar eclipse tour last year with us near Yiwu. See last year's posts for a description of that trip.
We started out today via American Airlines direct flight to Narita, Japan. John and I settled in nicely. He with some reading materials and plans to sleep. Me with downloaded Torchwood episodes to watch on the laptop. After a 5 hour layover, we went on to Shanghai. Pictures shown here are John settling in on the airplane for the 13 hour trip and the JAL Business class lounge at Narita.
Last year we visited Beijing as part of our July/August 2008 eclipse trip. This year, as the universe helped us arrange, our best option is Shanghai as John is now representing GBF, a basalt fiber manufacturing company located near Hangzhou. So our plans are to base ourselves out of Shanghai, visit the plant, then travel to Tianjin, where we'll do a day trip out to visit another company John represents.
We arrived safely in Shanghai and took a car to our Citadines Apartment hotel. It's a nice 2 bedroom, two bath, with kitchen apartment that will be our home until July 13, when we travel to Tianjin.
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