Nice chocks.

Those are the emergency arresting system for when you are landing long...

congratulations Dan. Great stuff. Reminds me to Baja California. How about the winds in the valleys? Any turbulences?<br />Cheers<br />Peter &amp; Paula<br />China<br />??

I'm sure there can be wind and turbulence, Peter, but not when I was there.<br /><br />China? Have you found the SeaReys that were sold to China? What an adventure it would be flying around China in a SeaRey!

Dan, not sure if China would be the kind of adventure you would 'like'. I have done business in China over the years. They are amazed that we can get in our airplanes and go without receiving written government permission in advance. I also rode around China in a motorcycle side car. Every so often we would come across a check point with solders with automatic weapons. Very intimidating. My host would say a few words to them an in sort order everyone was laughing and having a great time. I speculate we were saved by derogatory jokes about 'round eyes' in the side car. Yes, China in a Searey sure would be an aventure.

China in a side car must have been a great adventure, Jeff. Imagine the advantage of a SeaRey, however, flying right over the road blocks! A SeaRey factory demonstrator was shipped to China to start a business flying tourists on sight-seeing flights several years ago. The last time I checked the operation was still bogged down government red tape.

We lived in China for a year, Jeff, and traveled extensively and independently. Never had any problems at all. One time a gate guard waved us away from a military installation, and another time when we wanted to camp at a lake the response was, 'We'll consider it.' Otherwise, we went where we wished to go. They do things somewhat differently there, of course, and it's a lot easier to find out what the rules are after you've broken one than before, but ordinary common sense is pretty much international.<br /><br />Flying independently in China, on the other hand, is no doubt more complicated than traveling by any other means, but I think that, with patience and persistence, it's possible. I've been looking for a good excuse (and financial backing) to try it. There's a lovely lake, Qinghai Hu, we visited once on the Tibetan plateau that I'd love to splash in. 10,500' MSL. Salty--but who'd care?!

My Mother was raised in China during the 1920s and returned with my father after they retired for a long visit. Lots of good stories including traveling down the Yangtzi and Yalu rivers by boat for a couple of weeks.