Fellow Virtual Travelers and Historians,
We are in Shanghai and have hit the ground running! To help us gauge our list performance and delivery, we'd like to ask that you do a quick reply to us. We gave up on trying to send an update via our MailChimp list, as the internet in our first hotel is too slow.
After a delicious Chinese breakfast in our hotel at the Pudong International Airport, we met with Peter Shi, our contact at Bigger Printing this morning:
http://www.biggerprintinggroup.com/
We've resolved as many questions with our printer as we can until we get our next book written (Wudang Mountain Odysseys). Once we have the chapters written, edited and laid out, we'll work with Peter for our first printing, which will incorporate many of Master Karl's 3D photographs of Wudangshan. Bigger Printing will help us sort out how to include 3D glasses with our book, so our readers can experience sights as we see them in person (3D)!
After finishing our business with Peter, we explored the Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore. Dennis asked them (via one of our electronic translators), for any books about the history of both Wudang and Hua. None exist. Hhmmm. We'd better get these next two books written!
Then we went native, taking the subway and Maglev Train back to our hotel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train
Tomorrow we fly to Xi'an and a guide will meet us to drive us to Huashan, where we will interview another Abbot at the base of Hua. We'll be in the hotel at the base of Huashan for 4 nights, exploring the mountain during the day. We don't know what the availability of WiFi will be until we're there, so you may or may not hear from us for a while.
Chinese breakfast.
Bigger Printing - Master Karl, Peter and Dennis.
Maglev Train in Shanghai.
Blessings,
Dennis & Anita