Walking around within any Chinese city lets one view a whole lot of cars.  And most of them look the same.  Most of them (including every single taxi) are a make called a Citroen.  It’s a hatchback about the size of the old VW Rabbits.  And this is the standard for a car over here.  Add to that some other tiny cars and a whole lot of scooters and motorbikes and bicycles, and one’s mind just gets tuned to much smaller vehicles.

Then we walked past a Lincoln Navigator.

Do you know what those look like?

I’ll tell you what they look like.

At that moment, in this place, through these eyes, it looked like a monstrosity…

A road-hogging, fuel-chugging, indulgent-to-the-max smog-causer.

I realize that one might see such vehicles at Wal-Mart any day of the week back home.

But here and now, it just reminded me, “Man, everything is sure relative.”

And I’m not sure that “relative” is always good.

After confirming that my laptop cannot get into the school network and that WordPress is not accessible within China, I’ve been relegated to saving any entries during this trip and posting them once we arrive in Hong Kong or back at home.

So to the two of you who were looking for updates, now you know.

I mean, you’ll know in two weeks.

This prickly little comic comes from a fellow Canadian with a tough-to-forget-site-name… www.nakedpastor.com

Why didn’t I think of that one?!

Here’s the comic…