6:51pm
Have hardly moved. The latest news is that supposedly our plane will be here and ready to depart by 8:20 or so... the boat will be held for us until midnight. Who knows if it'll all work out. What I do know is that I'm kinda hungry. Breakfast @6:30 and no lunch or dinner yet. Some joint in the airport has faux pizza, but nobody's touching it and it's prolly been there for days. I think I'll hold off a bit longer. This is completely opposite of yesterday, when I ate twice as many meals as necessary. Two breakfasts, two lunches on the first flight, two dinners on the second. Things are already far too bizarre.

8:00pm
Finally boarded, which doesn't guarantee that we'll reach the boat in time of course. Was just rereading the stat in the Lonely Planet guide about how 1/3 of the world's air fatalities occurred on Chinese airlines. The plane we're on is pretty beat up: cracked trays, flickering, broken lights...

Just got the in-flight meal. Two words: Butter Pie. This "really natural green food" contains "sorbital" and "aquavit" among its other healthy, natural ingredients. Oh, and it's not green.

Made it to Chongqing, believe it or not. Chongqing is the largest city in the world. 31 million! Shanghai and Beijing are second and third. Crazy. It was very foggy, so we didn't get to see much of the city as we drove to the boat. It was kind of eerie though. The city is very hilly, so all the skyscrapers, apartment buildings and condos are stacked tightly on the hillsides that rise above the river.