Where is everyone? Looks like North KoreaWent for a walk in Xiamen China. It was hot and muggy. The walk tomorrow will be earlier in the day. View attachment 79155View attachment 79156View attachment 79157View attachment 79158View attachment 79159
Went for a walk in Xiamen China. It was hot and muggy. The walk tomorrow will be earlier in the day. View attachment 79155View attachment 79156View attachment 79157View attachment 79158View attachment 79159
Being smart and staying inside until it cools down.Where is everyone? Looks like North Korea![]()
I'll be honest, I haven't ventured out for food at all. Making payments can be tough. Some places won't take cash, and will only take Alipay. I need to test it and make sure mine is set up correctly.How was the food? I'd love to eat my way through China one day
Being smart and staying inside until it cools down.
I'll be honest, I haven't ventured out for food at all. Making payments can be tough. Some places won't take cash, and will only take Alipay. I need to test it and make sure mine is set up correctly.
Being smart and staying inside until it cools down.
I'll be honest, I haven't ventured out for food at all. Making payments can be tough. Some places won't take cash, and will only take Alipay. I need to test it and make sure mine is set up correctly.
That is a bummer. I don't know that I would want to tie my bank account to some foreign (especially Chinese) app. Though I guess one could create a "burner" bank account of sorts. But I would like to, as RORO says, eat my way across China one day. Just can't at the moment for a lot of different reasons.
Being smart and staying inside until it cools down.
I'll be honest, I haven't ventured out for food at all. Making payments can be tough. Some places won't take cash, and will only take Alipay. I need to test it and make sure mine is set up correctly.
Oh wow I didn't realize there was a currency issue. Would Wise work? Its like an international bank that lets you pay in local currencies. I used it to buy concert tickets in Argentina when it wouldn't accept an american credit card once. I just checked and it has Chinese Yuan.
It's not really a currency thing, as more a form of payment. Some places you can only pay with the app. Even then there can be issues if the business doesn't use the right version of Alipay. Some small shops use a personal version, when they need to use the business one. As a visitor you can't pay to a personal version. It can get complicated.Oh wow I didn't realize there was a currency issue. Would Wise work? Its like an international bank that lets you pay in local currencies. I used it to buy concert tickets in Argentina when it wouldn't accept an american credit card once. I just checked and it has Chinese Yuan.
How was the food? I'd love to eat my way through China one day
one of these things is not like the othersThis has been an awesome trip so far. I met up with @JordanD briefly in the Atlanta airport, I had dinner with @mattc206 at Tequila 61 in Anchorage, I had lunch with @Gonzo at Originale the next day, and spent the last day or so hanging out with @ASpilot2be here in XMN.
Being smart and staying inside until it cools down.
Shhhh. Don't tell anybody.If they were really smart, they'd move to whidbey island. It is currently 55 and socked in to 1/2 mile viz at my house (thanks to an ATP written textbook 10-15 knot onshore breeze and zero dew point spread) in the middle of August. Flew this afternoon, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky, other than actually offshore over the real ocean, way way down low. About a million bug smashers out and about though, which made VFR flight following on the return-to-base for our flight extra spicy!