Paddles up!
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Paddles up!.] For the record, we didn’t it plan it this way. But like many things on our trip, fortuitious circumstance happened to place us in Hong Kong on the first …
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The Dim Sum curse
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: The Dim Sum curse.] We’re cursed. It’s the only way to explain it.Since arriving in China, one of the few things we’ve been absolutely obsessed over finding is some …
A little more on Hong Kong
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: A little more on Hong Kong.] We haven’t been here long, but there’s already a few interesting things that are, well, interesting. Consider for the moment the fact that …
Messed up Hong Kong money
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Messed up Hong Kong money.] So naturally, upon arrival, we needed to get some money out so we could, well, do anything. The bank machine (from the Bank of China) set the …
Help me, I'm melting!
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Help me, I'm melting!.] Hong Kong is hot. It’s humid. I think I left a trail of melted me behind as we walked around. Oof. We took our final long-distance train from …
Xi'an and the Terra Cotta Warriors
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Xi'an and the Terra Cotta Warriors.] Amy and I have gone to some lengths to avoid doing the largely tourist thing: travelling in a tour group. Why? Because this is a …
Weird things in Xi'an
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Weird things in Xi'an.] Right now, Amy and I are taking advantage of ludicrously cheap internet at a cafe on a very rainy day, listening to some strange Chinese pop …
Last night's train
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Last night's train.] Man, do I ever have more to say about last night… This was the second long distance train we’ve taken in China (I’m not counting the train …
The Shanghai MagLev Train
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: The Shanghai MagLev Train.] A few years back, someone got the idea that China really needed to showcase its technical know-how, and put forth the idea of building one of …
The Shanghai Museum
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: The Shanghai Museum.] Lest I neglect a wonderful place in Shanghai. One of our first stops was the Shanghai Museum. This is a fairly new place, having only opened in the …