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A journey with no map could not do! I love maps and could not resist showing you where I am at the moment. Please locate Shanghai in the NNE of the map to get a better idea of the bigger picture — I am sure there are plenty of ways to better display maps on a blog than a screen shot of Google, I will just have to figure it out…

Tomorrow I am going to drive from NingBo (where I live) to YiWu (WSW) – that’s about 200Km or 130 miles – to source and meet with manufacturers; if it sounds like work, it is not such a burden, we will be looking for suppliers of martial arts and karate equipment, so I’ll be staying with what I like; these are the preliminary steps to validate a business idea that took form while preparing my karate journey & should not take more than a day; I will let you know how things went.

From YiWu, we will commute to Hangzhou (N), as shown on the map, for the week end – Hangzhou is home to a branch of my NingBo dojo, so I’ll get a chance to train there Saturday afternoon (yes, an opportunity to meet with new friends; I’ll let you know how it went) while my wife meets her classmates for a reunion. If we do not go directly to HangZhou, we’ll drive back to NingBo tomorrow night and head to Hangzhou on Saturday morning… We’ll see.

I’ll take pictures on the way, it is the soy flowers season and the fields will be a gorgeous bright yellow; HangZhou is also one of my favorite cities in China and is beautiful; I’ll post them for you guys — right now, I have to run, I have dojo class tonight.

Osu!