When I lived in L.A. for a summer getting places was always 45 minutes. No matter what direction or where in the city you started, you learned to assume it would take at least that long. This is our sixth week in Hong Kong, so it is starting to be long enough that some patterns of this place are beginning to reveal themselves. Getting around as a newbie, and Cantonese-less one at that, means I have started to try to leave with at least an extra half hour of padding …
First Days
I now live in Hong Kong. I moved here from Wyoming. Both words have ‘O’s in them, which may turn out to be the most similar thing about these two places. People in the U.S. reacted strongly about our move. “Moving to Hong Kong! I could never do that. I could never, never, never do that.” People in Wyoming immediately thought of the space, or lack thereof here. A poet who wrote a book largely about Wyoming, Cecily Parks, wrote about Wyoming ‘thrall.’ Reading a guidebook the word ‘throngs’ is …