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Yesterday I got on the bus in Xi’an, heading to the airport to fly to Shanghai, and my tour mate Ruby handed me a bottle of water she had frozen in her hotel room refrigerator, in effect creating, just for me, a large bottle of ice water for me in a land where I cannot […]

I try to be completely honest with you all, even if it paints me in a not-so-favorable light, and so I say in my defense that I DID think the Terra Cotta soldiers were interesting today, but it’s a site, similar to the Louvre Museum, that I can be in and out of in an […]

I am writing this from Xi’an after an unbelievably long day!  We had a jam-packed day in Beijing before heading to the airport for an 8pm flight to Xi’an, which left 4 hours late due to a thunderstorms and so we arrived at our hotel a 3am and I’m up and having coffee 4 hours […]

Reading over that post from last night with a cup of coffee this morning, I should make it clear that we DID finally successfully meet up with our friends Harriet and Janet.  We walked around near their hotel, which is located right in these old Chinese hutongs, which are old alleyways that are teeming with […]