Understanding Hong Kong
December 03, 2011
Hong Kong is New York. It took me a while to figure out what Hong Kong reminded me off. It is clearly not China. At first, I could not understand w...
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Channeling Our Inner Sardine
December 01, 2011
Midnight, Thursday night/Friday morning: I am on a sleeper bus from Yangshuo toward Hong Kong. You might think I mistyped that - surely I meant a sle...
Biking and Learning
November 30, 2011
We spent the day cycling in the Chinese countryside. We rode to a 1400 year-old Banyan tree. We then rode to Moon Hill, a beautiful karst mountain...
Pursuing the Perched Pagoda
November 30, 2011
Some days the creative juices dry up. Insights are slow to come. Clever commentary seems elusive. I am guessing this is one of those days. As you...
Foreign or Familiar? (and a Nosebleed)
November 28, 2011
Last night, we watched the “Lion King” and the start of “Night at the Museum”. At dinner, we heard “Endless Love”, “Fast Car”. “Girl from Ipanema...
Finding Awe on the Li River
November 27, 2011
Susie has told me to include the following message in this blog. Since one of my basic strategies of familial bliss is to listen to her, I am doing a...