Chengdu may have been our favorite city on this trip so far. We’d heard while in Chongqing that it (Chengdu) was a nicer place to live, and the descriptions we’d heard of its major characteristics – slower pace of life, teahouse culture, natural beauty, excellent cuisine, etc – reminded us of some of the things [...]
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Since our website is blocked we can’t post all the adorable pictures of pandas but here’s a teaser.
Read more →NOTE: internet connection is still slow, though a little better, here in Chengdu. I have little patience with trying to upload photos but I’ve added a few from the cruise. We are still experiencing things at a faster rate than I am able to write them down! I’m writing the beginning of this post [...]
Read more →I’m writing this from a 32nd floor apartment in the JiangBei (“North of the River”) District of the city of Chongqing, with a magnificent view of the city. We arrived in Chongqing on Tuesday morning, and by the time we catch up to writing about it we’ll have a lot to share, but I thought [...]
Read more →NOTE: Our internet connection is too slow to upload pictures at the moment. We’ll catch up soon. Greetings from a giant boat on the Yangtze River! We are currently aboard the “President Prime,” the newest and fanciest cruise ship on the river (it started business in April of this year). This is probably the most [...]
Read more →At the beginning of this week, Sarah and I returned to the two cities where we lived for each of the two years we lived in China. Shaoxing and Hangzhou. I’ve been to both cities several times since I’ve been here, but for Sarah it was her first time back in 3 years. In Shaoxing, [...]
Read more →I went to a friend’s wedding in Changxing this weekend. I’ll post more about it but for now I want to see if this email post to WordPress works! I’ll try to attach a photo, too.
Read more →There are two little girls on my mind tonight. Our good friends Andrew and Jess, whom we met in Eureka, and who, incredibly, later moved to my hometown of Spokane, and who, even more incredibly, we were able to meet up with in China in 2008, are about to get on an airplane to China, [...]
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While Sarah is enjoying the domestic comforts of Downton Abbey, I’m in the sweltering heat of Southern China trying to get my dissertation proposal done and get started on my research. Progress is slow, but I think I’ll get there in the end. I arrived in Beijing on August 19 (or was the the 20th?) [...]
Read more →Sarah and I are particpating in this fundraising event on Saturday. Please consider donating — visit this website to donate online!
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