1/16/99 Pt 1: Our plane lifted off out of Denpasar a half hour late (1:30am), but it was an easy flight and we arrived in Tokyo around 7am. Stored our baggage in…
Tag: East Asia
Broken Camera
10/28/98: Sadly, I dropped the video camera. Not only can we not continue with the interviews, but we’ll have to pay for a new camera… I cobbled together the video clips and…
A Bit Of Chicago in Hong Kong
10/27/98: Spent more time doing video interviews with Carl & Karen, this time, up on the roof of their high-rise apartment building with the rest of Hong Kong in the background… We…
Walking In Hong Kong
10/26/98: The typhoon has changed course, and the weather here in HK is turning sunny today. I’m glad we’re not going to have to add that to our list of experiences… We…
Typhoon Warning
10/25/98: I stayed in bed with a bad cold, but Ruth video-taped Carl preaching at church this morning… Our assignment here is to help them prepare a media presentation of their 30…
Infectious Cheerfulness
10/24/98: Carl is a joyful ball of energy, in spite of the fact that he is sporting a nasty looking jig of steel rods and screws and rings that protrudes from and…
Walking Across The Border
10/23/98: Wish we could have seen more, stayed longer… We walked across the border into Shenzen Station in the New Territories of Hong Kong… After a short ride on the KCR rapid…
The Banana Pancake Trail
10/22/98: Travel day, heading back to Hong Kong… Traveling through mainland China was challenging, but not as much as we expected… Tourism is ramping up rapidly in China, and I heard one…
More On The Li River
10/21/98: Pretty low-key day today. We hung around town and did some more people watching… NOTE: The photo above shows a river taxi on the Li River in Yangshuo, China.
A Day In The River Life
10/20/98: Today we took a boat tour on the Li River up to the village of Yangti… On board we met Ken and Rochelle who are from Hawaii… They are also dog…
Chinese Arts And Crafts
10/19/98: Ruth went into Guilin on her own to buy our onward tickets. I stayed in so that I could catch up on writing… Later on, we walked around the village here…
Capitalism On The Rise
10/18/98: We went down to the river to watch the boats and the people… I asked one villager if she would take us out on her long bamboo raft, but one of…
Surprise
10/17/98: We wandered around this tiny riverside town a little bit today. A different pace and way of living for sure… Ruth sneaked off and managed to find a bakery, and then…
I Love A Parade
10/16/98: Slept surprisingly well in the “hard sleeper” compartment on the train last night… Bunk beds were stacked three high, six beds to each compartment, with 10 or 12 of such compartments…
Blessed Are The Flexible
10/15/98: Up early to make it to the train station, but a grumpy sales agent who seemed determined to make our day as bad as hers and our trip onward impossible meant…
Peace Corps
10/14/98: We sat in on one of Travis’ classes this morning… The students enthusiastically greeted us in unison with a hearty “Hello!”… The Peace Corps is a pretty cool organization and provides…
Dumplings and Shave Ice
10/13/98: Arrived safely in Panzhihua and met up with my friend Travis. He is teaching English at a university here with the Peace Corps… Hilarity ensued when we got to the campus…
Social Etiquette Is Different Here
10/12/98: We couldn’t go through China without stopping to see Pandas. So today we took a tour to a panda refuge about an hour out of town… We met a fellow traveler…
It Did Not Even Faze Her
10/11/98: I stayed in bed with a cold, while Ruth went out to get train tickets onward… On her way over one of the bridges that spans a canal she noticed a…
Eat Your Veggies
10/10/98: A friend of ours told us to look up the Jiao Tong hotel when we arrived in Chengdu. He said it was the newest and cheapest place in town. We couldn’t…
Travel Day 200!
10/9/98: Travel day 200!… On the train we met Gene and Deb, from Alberta, Canada. He’s a university Prof. who teaches technical writing, and she is a CPA… They are traveling for…
They Buried His Army With Him
10/8/98: Today we visited another one of China’s mainstay tourist sights: the Terra Cotta Soldiers… This burial site includes more than 8,000 life-sized clay soldiers, each apparently modelled after real men in…
The Older Part Of Town
10/7/98: Arrived in Xi’an and were surrounded by a horde of taxi drivers hoping to take us to our hotel… Though we had chosen our hotel before we left Lanzhuo, the driver…
The Bucket List Item I Didn’t Know I Needed
10/6/98: Visiting a factory in China was not on my bucket list, but now I know it should have been, because today it happened… John set up a business manufacturing toys, so…
Helping With The Little Things
10/5/98: Ruth and I wandered around the open market near John & Ivette’s apartment and took some photos… This evening we babysat the kiddos so John and Ivette go out on a…