Chinese New Year 2009 in Kentucky

Elephant Mountain near Lijiang, China Happy New Year. Again! Tomorrow kicks off the Chinese Lunar New Year with a new moon and I fear the worst. After two frustrating hours of consulting Google to find a place where I could torment some local Chinese with the worst my Mandarin has to offer, I had no [...]

Vagabonding in China – notes

My personal mantra even way before I ever started traveling has been: “Always go where the action is.” Love it or hate it, China is by far the place to find some serious action for your vagabonding buck right now….and if you have a little travel money jingling around in an account and are staring [...]

China and NG

A bridge near Lijiang, China I used to actually abhor the stack of magazines sitting in my room queued for me to read when I returned home from a trip. The mountainous pile, composed of freebies, trade journals, and three different flavors of National Geographic (Adventure, Travel, and the original) would sit on my desk [...]

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