Mission: Second Honeymoon
Day 1. Getting to Fenghuang
Our second honeymoon was in Phoenix. Not Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix (Fenghuang), Hunan.
I didn’t get to see much. We took the once/week flight from Guangzhou to Tongren. (Which I didn’t even find out was in Guizhou until I was flying out – Now I’ve got a brand new province I almost never been to. 
) We arrived after dark. My lovely wife had already arranged for a driver to meet us (I still had to wade through a pack of other drivers intend on taking me for a ride somewhere). Amazingly, there were no travel snags or drunken, vomiting passengers with us (
), unlike on our First Honeymoon. 
On the road from the Tongren airport to Feng Huang, I could still make out the traditional architecture in many of the buildings. After so many sad failures attempting to capture good photos of these types of buildings from trains and buses, I was finally going to get a chance to get up close and personal with building styles I’ve only been able to see from a distance. 
Fenghuang is more or less divided into two pieces. There’s the old town, beautiful, but also a giant tourist trap, and everything else. Our first hotel (for some reason, I’ve found it impossible to get through a honeymoon without a hotel change) was in the “everything else” zone.
The hotel room was large, but plain and lacked a lot of amenities.
Our hotel room in Feng Huang
Unlike the initial hotel on our first honeymoon, it did have the 2 absolutely essential items we needed most – internet and oxygen. The staff was very accommodating, even adding a wireless hub to our room so that we could both do our jobs each morning without getting caught in a web of network cables before moving on to other activities. There was one slight oddity. The room had a Windows-based PC with a tower case – complete with an Apple logo on the front. 
Feng Huang has interesting computers – PC or Apple?
Just to keep us from getting lonely, more than 20 friends showed up. They were all staying in the same hotel as us or in other hotels nearby. No, it wasn’t a second honeymoon orgy (but I really should do some research on that concept before some future honeymoon 
). Instead, it was a group of members of MilliCharity joining us for the Mission of Mercy phase of the trip.
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