Category: travel
Updated on August 2, 2011
Sunday Snapshot: Team Retreat {Harbin}
In the past six years living in Asia, I’ve had the opportunity to do many things I had never imagined myself doing. Riding elephants. Bunking with four people in a tiny one person steward’s cabin on an overnight… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
Sunday Snapshot: The Countryside
I’m not gonna lie–when the foreign affairs office called last Friday announcing an excursion to the countryside, I was anything but excited. In fact, I’m pretty sure I let out a significant groan. We’ve entered the final push… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
A sneak peek
I’m currently trying to dig myself out from under a large pile of essays, while attempting to decipher sentences such as “Old Chinese saying goes ‘filial piety and parental child does not want to’,” “Silkworm of spring weave… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
So. Very. Happy.
This week in the States? Pretty much perfection. Saying goodbye to the Pacific Northwest? Pretty darn difficult. And that’s enough said for now. Perhaps a few stories after I get settled back in…and make my way through a stack… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
There’s a first time for everything (part two)
Read the first part of the tale here and don’t forget to vote for your favorite flag–you have two more days to vote! We clambered quickly (quickly, but not gracefully, remember our voluminous shopping bags) out of the taxi… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
There’s a first time for everything (part one)
Almost six full years in China and I have never missed a train. Run wildly through a train station? Yes. Sprint down a train platform to the last possible car carrying a twenty pound frozen turkey? Yes {that was… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
Off to the big city
My Ipod is charged. My cellphone is charged. My kindle is charged. My very large, very empty backpack is by the door. I’m ready for a very ridiculously early train departure in the morning. The ladies on the… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
This is Chiang Mai
I finally got around to editing and posting most of my pictures from Chiang Mai last night. In the process, I came across the following photo, taken from the back of a red truck (basically a truck with an enclosed… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
It’s all about the food
For those of us who live in small cities in China where the culinary options are Chinese food, Chinese food or Chinese food, Chiang Mai is a paradise for our taste buds. From Indian, to Italian, to Mexican,… Read More
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