Eighty Days – Days 35 and 36

Today we continue the 150th anniversary commemoration of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. We’re following along with Phileas Fogg and we just reached Hong Kong aboard the steamship Rangoon. So far, we’ve traveled 10,819 miles, or 44.1% distance in just 43.9% of the time.

Detective Fix boarded the Rangoon in secret, having left instructions to forward the warrant for Fogg’s arrest to Hong Kong. The ship stopped in Singapore to load coal on October 31. On the northbound passage...