Today we continued our 500-mile journey west on the East China Sea to our destination, Shanghai, China. It was a quiet day that we thoroughly enjoyed after so many busy days in Japan and South Korea. We were able to listen to a number of conversationalists that talked about their experiences in China and the changes that have taken place in that country over the past 50 years, taking it from one of the poorest countries in the world in the 1970’s to the second largest economy in the world, with a population of 1.4 billion people.