Well, I messed up. I had intended in doing a series of posts about our being in China 30 years ago, beginning with the day we entered that country. But we went into China from Hong Kong on September 13, 1983, and I missed it. I’ll blame my lack on the aftermath of being in a conference three days last week.

This could be of interest to anyone who has read Operation Lotus Sunday. I say that because the events in OLS took place in September 1983. In fact, Roger and Sandra Brownwell entered China on September 13, 1983, the same as we did. On September 15 they were in Guilin, and took a boat tour on the Li River (Li Jiang). the same day that we took a boat tour on the Li River.

As I said in other posts some time ago, OLS follows our itinerary in China. Well, it mostly follows our itinerary. Since the plot involves two couples, and I didn’t want the couples running into each other in the different Chinese cities, I had to modify the itinerary of one couple a little. But they visit the same cities and see the same sights the Todd family did many years ago.

It’s going to be fun over the next couple of weeks, reading the diary again and reliving those days, all while thinking about the Brownwells and how I sort of relived it through them.

P.S. I don’t have the right photo I wanted to post on my computer here at home. Must be at work. I’ll swap out the photos tomorrow.