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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 […]

It’s been a long and crazy day here.  I started off strong with a breakfast coup in the form of an entire jar of peanut butter down at the buffet line and I made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that nearly moved me to tears.   It was only the recent memory of […]