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Township. So, naturally I started a conversation with the man from EHT, Kirk, and he tells me that he is not only from South Jersey, but an Atlantic City police officer as well. I was just flabbergasted. I traveled all the way to China and who do I bump into? An ACPD from EHT, NJ! The world can be so small at times, and this was a prime example. And bumping into a paisan, landsman, or whatever you happen to call a geographic/cultural soul mate just defies the odds. Let’s do the math; there are 1.3 billion Chinese + millions of visitors. So, out of literally billions of humans on earth, the chances of meeting someone from your back yard in the middle of Beijing is one in a bazillion! During the next 10 days, Patrick schlepped his Gate 1 group all over China “enlightening and educating” us to wonderful sites, monuments, museums, and gift shops, of course! The Atlantic City area was so far away, but every now and then East would crash into West and I would have to adjust my bearings. For example, one day Kirk asked our guide where he could buy a bottle of “wooter.” I was in Beijing surrounded by hundreds of Chinese words and sounds in the middle of Tiananmen Square heading for the Forbidden City, when my ears heard the unmistakable South Jersey word for H2O - “wooter.” Shai-shai (thank you) and knee how (hello) were such foreign words to me. But, wooter was a comforting sound that reminded me of home! Day 2 of our trip took us to the Great
Wall — one of the 7 Wonders of the World that at one time stretched 5,000 miles across China’s deserts, grasslands, and mountains. As I walked across a small section of the ancient wall, I suddenly thought this could be the Chinese version of the Boardwalk. Yes, it’s a stretch (pun intended), but it’s a famous walkway, a tourist attraction, has some parts of it that are in disrepair, and a piece of history that is a house- hold word whether your house is in the
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