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 […]
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I have both seen the Great Wall and been served more broccoli
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 […]
It’s funny to me that, as we get set to come over to China, everyone we told had pretty much the same reaction. China? Why? And, you, working together, had me also wondering why China?? I was pretty well terrified when we got on the plane. Then we got here and it was […]
Seat 17 G
Boy can I ponder a lot of stuff on an 11.5 hour flight! It was far superior to the 15 hour odyssey from Instanbul a couple of years back that killed my travel bug for well over a year. Seat choice is everything, though. We had the two bulkhead seats in the very front of […]