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October 31, 2004Lao Shan Mountain ClimbSpent 3 days in Quin Dao...one in new part of town, one in old town and one on a mountain north of town called Lao Shan--subsequently took train to...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 31, 2004 06:30 AM
TrackBack | Category: Bob's Blogs, China, Climbs & Walks, Conversations, Culture, Health, Language, Trains October 30, 2004Kindred SpiritsWalking by the Foreign Language Bookstore in Quindao, just up the street from my comfy clean hotel room that a tout from the railroad station led me to...80 yuan...Read this update October 26, 2004Pissing Match & Fast FoodYesterday, off the train in Quin Dao, the station workers weigh by bags and want to charge me money...for having my baggage on the train! I get my back...Read this update October 24, 2004Overnight Train to XuindaoXuindao is also spelled Quindao From Beijing, I take an overnight train alone to Xuindap. Quindao is a weekend getaway for well-to-do Communist party cadres and the train is...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 24, 2004 10:21 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Conversations, Culture, Trains October 23, 2004Coffee Taxis & New FriendsI take a taxi to the upscale Lufthansa shopping centerin Beijing to see if a bookstore had the Lonely Planet "Shanghai." They didn't of course...there were a few Lonely...Read this update October 20, 2004Tiananmen SquareI had read that Tiananmen was the biggest square in the world. However, Mao's huge Mausoleum takes up about a third of the square...almost right in the middle...so the...Read this update October 17, 2004Great Days Great WallE found the website (www.wildwall.com) and the adventure offered intriguing potential...off the beaten track, away from the Chinese tourist groups that follow a guide with a microphone and colored...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 17, 2004 12:00 AM
TrackBack | Category: Beijing, Beijing, Best Places, Bob's Blogs, China, Climbs & Walks, Food, History, Reflections October 16, 2004Hutongs in BeijingQuin-dynasty Beijing was redesigned with mazes of mud and brick walled courtyards after Genghis Khan's army reduced the city to rubble and is "now the stomping ground of a...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 16, 2004 01:31 AM
TrackBack | Category: Beijing, Beijing, Best Places, China October 15, 2004Far East Youth HostelThe last time I was in China it was freezing cold in January 2003. The weather is fantastic this October day in 2004. After slogging it out across Russia...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 15, 2004 11:21 PM
TrackBack | Category: Beijing, Best Places, China, Conversations, Hostels & Guesthouses October 14, 2004Last Leg Through MongoliaOut of the train window, just before departure from Ulaan Bataar to Beijing on the last leg of our trans-siberian train trip, we watch about 30 Mongolians...brothers, sisters, aunts,...Read this update October 12, 2004Reflecting on the SteppeWe are lucky...days are brisk but sunny...the sun glints off bare hills covered in golden fall grass. This feels like fall in southeast Oregon where I grew up. I...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 12, 2004 03:51 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Climbs & Walks, Mongolia, National Parks October 09, 2004Message from Ulaan BataarGreetings- Have been in Mongolia for the past week--initial few days in a ger bordering on a national park--lazy, relaxing days with hiking and Mongolian pony riding (when on...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 9, 2004 09:11 PM
TrackBack | Category: Altercations, Bob's Blogs, Culture, Homestays, Markets, Mongolia October 05, 2004Life in a Mongolian GerTerelgj National Park, an hour by car outside of Ulaan Baatar, is a spectacular valley surrounded by high eroded rock formations, pine covered mountains and steppes carpeted with sheep,...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 5, 2004 02:18 AM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, Hostels & Guesthouses, Mongolia, National Parks October 02, 2004End of a Disastrous ExperimentI want to emphatically state (and I think Bob would concur) that I have nothing but admiration for this proud and resilient people who have survived 70 years of...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 2, 2004 02:08 AM
TrackBack | Category: Politics, Reading, Reflections, Russian Federation Lingering Images of RussiaSiberian countryside with endless kilometers of grassland and golden pine and white birch trees... small wooden, weathered, unpainted, picturesque, single story bungalows throughout Sibera with blue painted shutters-the banya...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 2, 2004 01:29 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Homestays, Politics, Reflections, Russian Federation October 01, 2004Grueling Border WaitThe wait at the Russian-Mongolian border is a grueling 5-6 hour wait for customs to go through each carriage and take our passports, return to the office to fill out...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 1, 2004 01:23 AM
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