We are off to Shanghai to see that girl of ours! Excitement doesn't even begin to say how we feel. Thank you for all your fun, supportive, made in China comments, and more than anything for following our travels.…

  The first thing I thought of when I saw families living and working in the row houses working on paper fans was: "Hand made mass production, and to think I thought everything coming out of China was mass produced…

  Finding something doesn't mean that we were looking for it, nor does it intend that the object was lost. Oh the element of surprise in finding something we never knew, nor imagined! That is the element of traveling that…

    What I didn't expect to see in China: -Pink is the "in" color. -babies are bundled colorfully and are carried (strollers are seldom used.) I see babies at construction sights, on the streets, in the fields… -Instead of…

The Li river runs alongside of Yangshuo. Slow, steady, serene, and mystical. The Dragon's Teeth mountains are of stone, piercing up to the sky. Flying in from Hong Kong the aerial view was breathtaking, floating down the river alongside of…

  Pagoda on the Lil River.       Brocanting on the backstreet of Yangshuo. Whether what I bought was old or not is the question, yet the pleasure of meeting this older man and being lead down the alley…