Some Hong Kong Impressions
My big worry about travel writing is the inevitable narrowness of my experience. I can claim a certain amount of expertise when it comes to Japan: few of my readers will have studied that nation in quite as much depth, although like anything else, there is much more for me to know than I ever will know. But when it comes to Hong Kong (or, as with this weekend, Macau), I have only a narrow glimpse of what I recognize is a very large place. My impressions are at best facets of life in any city I visit.
That's one reason I take very few vacations: my preferred strategy up until this point in my life has been to study a place, generate an interest, and then live there. As time wears on, however, this technique is likely to be more burdensome. It's certainly very difficult to fit in with, say, the possibility of a wife and children, and statistically I may very well be approaching (Ed.--approached, blew by, was there a long time ago) that point.
In any event, this weekend I've written some entries on Hong Kong and Macau over the weekend, and will be posting them during the week. I imagine that many of my reader's experiences of the same subjects will differ from my own.
