We've arrived!

Apartment?
Check.

Bank Accounts?
Check.

Daughter adjusting to new international school?
Check.

We've arrived and we now have the basics covered.  But learning to live in Hong Kong again, is so much more involved than that.

Psychologists say that it takes expatriates about 6 months to get into the groove of their surroundings.
We are at month 3.

The sights are amazing here:  bright colors by day and even brighter lights by night.

The sounds are loud and cacophonous:  trolley bells, car horns, people speaking Cantonese and just about any other language on the planet, and then there is the construction.  So much construction.

The smells are crazy:  fuel exhaust, pungent odors from local food stalls, distinctive aromas from garbage bins and mildew in alleyways, expensive colognes on the most elegant ladies and gentlemen, as well as the unmistakeable lack of colognes on some of the world's hardest working folks.

And it is very expensive.

Many have asked me, "Now WHY do you want to live there again?"

The answer comes easily.  Living here is really LIVING.  There is such an intensity about Hong Kong, that it is like someone took New York City and boiled it down to it's super-concentrated state.  And then changed the language and culture.

I plan to post photos and short anecdotes about life here, and I hope that you'll join me on this journey.

Please give me your thoughts on what you see or would like to see.

Sharing this city makes it even better.

Perhaps you too will fall in love with Hong Kong.