Out of Control

Diesel says I should post again because our readers like my bitchy posts. And being that I’m pms’ing and my peeps are driving me crazy with their capricious ways, I decided to share with you my latest outburst of frustration.
We arrived in Beijing today and checked into our hotel. We get our card [...]

TV

I just turned on the TV to find Crocodile Dundee. Ah, this should be good. I haven’t seen a movie in ages, even an old one.
And then Croc Dundee spoke…in Mandarin.

And we watched the whole thing and it was oddly comforting.

It’s Not All Fun and Games

We get a lot of posts and comments on this blog and facebook about how much fun we seem to be having or how happy we look. All in all, this whole experience is quite and adventure and a lot of fun, but that doesn’t mean that it is always awesome. Sometimes we’re bored. Sometimes [...]

TIC: This is China

This is China
When you get frustrated by the inefficiency, lack of cleanliness or misinformation from all sides, TIC.  You just say it to each other. This is something we learned from some Chinese-Canadian students traveling through China…
You hotel offers free internet service. You ask for the password. The reception has no idea what the password [...]

Tibet

on the West side of China lies Tibet. An enormous and controversial province that is the home of the Tibetan people and has been controlled by China for something like 2000 of the last 3000 years.
Look. I’m not a historian. Check it out on wikipedia if you’re interested.
One of the goals of our trip had [...]

Lijiang

Lijiang is another new “ancient” city. Well, maybe I shouldn’t put it that way. Certainly some parts of the old city are original but many parts are “restored” to the point of having almost no connection, other than look, to the town built almost 1000 years ago.

Dali

The next day we took the bus to Dali. We took a cab to the bus station and hopped what Kelly’s dad called a “pirate” bus. It wasn’t air-conditioned and it struggled to go up the steepest hills, but there was ample legroom and it wasn’t all that uncomfortable. That is until about 3 hours [...]

Into the Motherland

After a few nice days in Hong Kong, we boarded our Hong Kong Express flight to Kunming. Because we were flying a Low Cost Carrier we had to ride like three trains in the airport terminal and then hop on a bus that drives you out to the plane about 15 minutes away. The flight [...]

!!CHINA ATTACK!!

If you’re going to move on China, you need to come in from the east. They don’t have much of a Navy and so picking a little port like Guangzhou (pop 5 million) and sending in all your heavy warships is the the way to go. You can stage from Hong Kong. The Hoklos, Hakkas, [...]

Kunming to Dali

My dad was crazy enough to come backpacking with Diesel and me. My mom, less adventurous, but probably much smarter in this case, will be meeting up with us in Beijing.
We spent yesterday meandering around the streets of Kunming, which much to my surprise, was quite modern and big (1 million people). [...]