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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 luck finding a local celebration here in Lexington, Kentucky.  It seems that few people are interested in where all that stuff in their Wal-mart shopping cart was born.

Sure, there are lots of Chinese people that live here, but most will probably be sitting at home in front of their televisions dreaming of home (or at least a city with enough culture to recognize that they are even here).

So I’m afraid I may be doomed to celebrating this new year of the Ox by ordering up some Chinese food in a local restaurant and praying that I can BS enough with them about my travels to China in order to get some proper, non-Californian style food put on my plate.

Most of the “Chinese” food that we eat (you know the big names on every menu) were excreted from Chinatowns in California and the average Chinese family wouldn’t wish it upon an enemy.

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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 at a map for answers – I highly recommend it.

I was lucky enough to spend 3 adventurous months there in 2007 and left roughly around this time last year. As my wheels left the ground for the last time in Beijing, my feelings were so mixed up that I didn’t know what to write in my journal. All at the same time I felt joy, stress relief (China can honestly wear on you after a few months), sadness at leaving a mystery I had spent so much time trying to figure out, and a loss of something.

Like an ugly, air pollution induced tumor – China had started to grow on me and I hated to see it go.

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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 for months, quietly outdating, making the transition from enjoyable to burden.

That wasn’t the case with the latest National Geographic, which is completely dedicated to China. The feelings that the photos (especially of Yunnan) give me are indescribable – and the articles are just as pleasing. So many things in this issue have taken me back to my recent 3 months in China and expanded the things that I learned about the country and the massive changes going on there.

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