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I rarely remember my dreams. I have to wake up in the middle of them to remember what they were about, and quite often I’m so tired that by the time I can get my mental faculties together to try and remember the dream, I …
As I was skipping through my various feeds this morning, I came across the following quote from Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC: Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee, said the Games …
I came across an article in Yahoo!’s Oddly Enough section this morning about how an internet protest movement is might drive out Starbucks from their location in the Forbidden City. Frankly, I’m trying to understand how …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Things seen along the way.] As we’ve moved along over this journey, I’ve taken pictures of things for posting to the blog. Some of them didn’t make it, for one reason or …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Our first plane ride in a month.] We left the hotel early this morning — before 7:00 am — to catch a train to the airport. Strangely fitting that our last train would be …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: A side-trip to Macau.] One last thing we needed to do before we leave the Hong Kong area was check out Hong Kong’s forgotten half-sister, Macau. Macau was founded a …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Amy's ready to kill me, I swear....] I complain a lot. Unintentionally, I swear, but I do. (Amy says I like to complain, but I actually hate it. I don’t even realize I’m …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: he Dim Sum curse lifted.] The Dim Sum curse is lifted, finally! After a few days of trying to figure out where to go, we hit Hong Kong Island to see what we could find. …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Going uphill to Victoria Peak.] After meeting up with Amy, following our mutual attire sizings (and having a snack in a very Irish bar, oddly sitting amidst a lot of …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Ode to Hong Kong Trolleys.] Trolley headlight burning bright, cart me through this stormy night, Away to the curious city sights And let me view the highest heights! …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Buying a suit.] So one of my missions here in Hong Kong (self-imposed, I should add) is to find a suit. Not just any suit, but the one for my wedding. So needless to …
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: We've been Shanghai'd.] So we found out today at lunch that our hotel is on what was farmland barely a decade ago. The Pudong area of Shanghai was nothing but …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: On the topic of Beijing.] I have to say, I was a little uncertain of what to expect in China. Mostly because we’d been told by several Brits and Aussies that we could …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: In the House of Mao.] Chalk up another notch on the Dead Communist Leader Tour. Today, Amy and I decided to keep things light, since our train leaves tonight for …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Shifty Taxis in Beijing.] So Amy and I decided to take a taxi back from the Summer Palace to our hotel. Partly because the walk around the Palace grounds (which are …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: The Summer Palace in Beijing, and a duck.] About the only thing Amy and I had on tap today was the Summer Palace. For this, we took three subways and a (decent) taxi to …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Enter the Forbidden City.] My calf muscles are killing me. I don’t know how many stairs Noah, Justin, and I climbed yesterday, but I swear my calves have never received …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Hiking the Great Wall of China.] Amy’s feet self-destructed yesterday. And as you’ve already read, the state of her feet prevented her from coming to the Wall today. So …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Searching for the Tianjin Antique Market.] Lonely Planet recommends going to Tianjin, especially to see the antique market there. It is said that a lot of the materials …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Hello, underwear!.] Today was errand day. Today, we decided to get our train tickets sorted out, and make plans for an excursion to the Great Wall. Inadvertantly, some …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Ni hao, Beijing!.] I woke up at the Datong station. I’d slept about seven hours, but decided that I wasn’t going to miss crossing this part of China. I was in a new …
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Crossing the Mongolia - China border by train.] Attention Lonely Planet! You might want to update your information for the next run of your Trans Siberian Railway book, …