We’re back. Mitch and I still ask ourselves how this trip we planned for so long could be over already. But, we have so many pictures to look at and stories to remember that we will be busy for some time organizing and digesting all those experiences. Our initial re-entry was easy. We flew back […]
Best and Worst of the Trip
Here’s a distillation of the best and worst of our trip around the world. We lots of fun putting this together during the final weeks of our trip. Most useful item we brought with us: Mitch’s swiss army knife. We used it for everything from extracting a sea urchin spine from Mitch’s foot at the […]
Exercise on the Road
Here is a blog that I wrote earlier in the trip and forgot to post. Perhaps I was was hoping my exercise routine would be more regular at some point. It was always sporadic at best. At any rate, here are some thoughts about exercise on the road. Those of you who know Mitch will […]
The Trip of a Lifetime
For five years this trip loomed over the horizon. For nearly a year now it has been reality. Soon, it will be part of our family history. It has been a grand trip, a great trip, one never to be forgotten. Understanding what we have accomplished on this trip will be better understood as we […]
Reflections on China
This was my first visit to China, if you do not count Hong Kong. Margit was in China in 1987, so she has some perspective on the changes in China. My observations on changes, though, have to be based on what I have read, and the small bit of China that we saw. That said, […]
The Last Great Sight
The Great Wall of China. One of the foreseen highlights of the trip. One of the greatest sights created, up there with the Taj Mahal and Great Pyramids, at least in my mind. So we did some research on it in the Lonely Planet Book our great hostel, The Red Lantern, lent to us. It […]
Forbidden (City) Pleasures
We saved the best for the last couple of days of our foreign travels, or at least some of the best. It was not planned that way. We had originally planned to spend a month in China, but when we made some changes to our itinerary, we were unable to get a flight from Bali […]
Xian
May 11 and 12 It was a whirlwind stop in Xian to see the Terra Cotta Warriors. We all knew before we got there that it wouldn’t be enough time and we regretted it the whole time we were there. There was only time to do one thing and the rest of the things we […]
Yangshuo
We are now back in the US traveling up the Pacific Coast and as usual we are at least three weeks behind on our blog. We intend to continue posting until we are caught up. So stay tuned and continue to check for updates. -Margit Our first day in Yangshuo we hung out. That night […]
Going to China
We have been so long without posting anything! Yikes. Well, We’re almost to the end of the trip, so have a lot of catching up to do. I’ll start with our flight out of Bali, Indonesia. After arguing with Dad over the taxi prices, we finally hired a guy to drive us across the island. […]
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