Welcome, Chile and Hong Kong!

Folks from Chile and Hong Kong have visited this site. Hong Kong became a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China in 1997, ending more than 150 years of British colonial rule, but at least according to Google's blogspot stats, it is treated as its own separate country. Go figure!

I visited Hong Kong very briefly on my way to Beijing in 1991. My longest contact with Hong Kong was through my grade school pen pal Fut Lui. Recently, my New Zealand pen pal from that time, Shirley Fiddel, contacted me because I had mentioned her in another post. She had no memory of me, but I fondly rememeber both of them. Yes, folks, that was back in the days before facebook and email, when kids actually found foreign pen pals through classified ads at the backs of magazines! Wow, a different time.

As far as Chile is concerned, everyone I've ever known who has visited the country has loved it. Sure would like to some day.