Purple Fringe and Shameless Gluttony in the Beijing Airport
Stiff-legged and swollen-toed, the guests of Air China flight 992 plod, stretch, and waddle out of the pressurized metal tube. Eleven hours of breathing the same recycled air, and it’s lovely to walk...
View ArticleMagical China: First Impressions
Cool air. Narrow, winding hutongs. Illuminated lanterns in reds and oranges, swaying suspended in the space above the streets. Frosty windows, thick blankets. Weeping willows descending on...
View ArticleBeijing Bizarre: 7 Obscure Things You’ll Want to Do
Beijing is rad. Here are the 7 things you'll want to remember to do while you're in town!
View ArticleHow I almost followed a Floppy Rabbit around the Great Wall of China.
I'm not even lying.
View ArticleCheap food in Beijing: Xingshan Restaurant – the best grub in town.
Affordable and delicious, this is the best place to eat!
View ArticleThe Transsiberian Railway – Part I: Getting Started
Best of all, he would tell me of the great train that ran across half the world... How a Tzar had said, "Let the Railway be built!" And it was. For me, nothing was ever the same again...
View ArticleThe Transsiberian Railway – Part III: Locking Toilet & The Mongolian Visitor
With a shudder and a shake, accompanied by a noise that sounds like steam escaping from a pressurized valve, the dimly-lit train pulls out of the Beijing station at 13 minutes before 8 o'clock.
View ArticleThe Transsiberian Railway – Part IV: The Foreigner Prank
We're starting to realize that we're going to be on this train for the next, umm... forever. Two continents, 12 regions, 87 cities and 9 time zones, to be exact...
View ArticleThe Transsiberian Railway – Part V: Crossing into Mongolia & The First...
Waiting games at the border between China and Mongolia... and our first snowflakes of winter!
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