What were they trying to say?

This is the slogan printed on one of the electric bikes that are so popular here.  (I will do  a whole post on those things later).

Just for the record I asked on of our office support staff what they were trying to say, she had no idea.  The Chinese characters translate roughly into "Ocean Breeze"

Let me introduce my crew

Meet Lenny and Ganguly, my crew.  The smiling guy in the middle is one of the foremen for the Chinese building the bridge.  In his had is one of the precision high quality tools custom fabricated for this work.  We be having fun.

Where is John?

When I left I understood I was going to Shanghai.  Shanghai is a modern metropolitan city with a very Chinese spin on things.  I am not in Shanghai, I am on Changxing Dao, and island in the Yangtze river.  With the exception of being in China and populated with Chinese Changxing Dao is the binary NOT of Shanghai.  Where I am you see these driving down the street every day:

That pretty much redefines the concept of "hoop-de".  China is a different place to be sure.

Okay damn it

I had to do some small things that I believe are technically illegal here, but now I get to post pictures and such...  So please just enjoy the posts, don't say bad things about China (because I do eventually want to come home), and enjoy the posts.

Another Try

Since my posts are much more interesting with pictures and that is what failed with the last attempt I thought I would try again.  Why, because I am stubborn.  I know you are all surprised.  So here is my one and only survey truck:

If you see the brand new F-250 with custom survey everything, you are on the wrong blog.

Posting to the blog...

Well I haven't been having much success posting, but I am still trying.  If this gets through, let me know.

Since I am here working as a subcontractor for CalTrans I had an expectation of high quality equipment.  Well let me tell you CalTrans Survey Team China has the best!  Here is a picture of our survey truck:



Actually, due to a long story I will post later if this works, my survey group has a special exception even to use this, CalTrans related personnel are not allowed to operate any vehicle in China.  And unlike Nigeria, they are serious about it here.