road to the sea aka on the way to school

Today I bring with me some pictures of the typical morning's ride from Jinqiao, Pudong down to San Jia Gang. It's a trip that leads from one of the biggest, most upscale hubs of expat life, down through a stretch of Shanghai's easternmost outskirts, filled with factories, concrete suburbs and tile villages, and suddenly, inexplicably, through the guarded gates of a private, international school. The whole thing boggles the mind, really.