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I spent the night in Beijing, in a neighborhood close to the airport. It was funny being back in China. I wandered around the neighborhood and went to the grocery store to get snacks (and cucumber chips). After a day of exploring, I was back at the airport and on my flight home. Funny side [...]

And I`m back! I completely forgot about the China censorship issue, so I was only partially surprised when I couldn`t login from China. It`s been a busy week! We just arrived in Osaka this morning off a 48 hour ferry boat from Shanghai. Good Times! :) I`ll be filling in the gaps of the last [...]

Let me tell you about my boat journey, but shhh… we’ll have to whisper, so I don’t get thrown overboard. After a long morning of hurry up and wait, we finally made it through Customs to board the boat for our trip across the East China Sea. It took us about an hour just to [...]

…according to someone’s guidebook. After being in Xi’an and Beijing, Shanghai has such a different feel. It has a big city energy, and it just feels alive. When we first arrived, and headed down Nanjing Road in search of lunch, we got sidetracked with all the people and shops to look at and ended up [...]

When you’re traveling, sometimes the days stretch out forever. You think back at the end of the day and realize that something that happened in the morning seems like several days ago. Today was one of those days. This morning I went to the Terracotta Warriors near Xi’an. I had seen pictures of the Terracotta [...]

As we raid a local convenience store for snacks, my mind is full of thoughts about what the overnight train ride is going to be like. I’ve taken public transit in Europe and back home, but this will be a new experience. We arrive at the train station fairly early, along with the rest of [...]

China has always flown under the radar as far as being a country that I wanted to travel to, but here I am. Since I wasn’t able to update while in China (ah, the beauty of censorship), here are a few of my favorite things about my China trip: First stop, The Great Wall. Pictures [...]

Sitting in the Vancouver airport, in what appears to be the Asia terminal (as everything is in English/French and Chinese), I’m thinking “what have I done!” Time went by so quickly yesterday, and by the time I went to sleep last night I was thinking “what the hell am I doing?” This morning I woke [...]