My plane home to Georgia left from Shanghai so it gave me a perfect excuse to spend a couple of days in Shanghai and take the Mag-Lev train to the airport. I took Maggie with me and we did a couple more touristy things before I departed for home. We did a harbor boat tour, walked thru the different food markets and shopped for souvenirs in Yuyuan garden. The day of my departure we took the Mag-Lev to the airport. It starts out very smooth but once you get past 350 km/hour it sort of shutters a lot so my last good picture was at 323 but the top speed really was 431 km/hour. China has plans to extend the Mag-Lev to Hangzhou, but that won’t be till 2010 so I will probably miss that really, really fast ride.
