2009…already?!

Happy New Year! Wow…it’s already the 2nd of the new year and here I am dragging out another rapid post just to let you know I’m still here, still teaching, still traveling, still living in China, still…well you get the idea.
A year does a lot to change the landscape of a place. I mean that [...]

Kubuqi desert: A really long walk…

Just at a month since I made this trip north into inner-Mongolia I finally have a collection of images and a little story to share about the experience.
For the Chinese national holiday a group of hikers from Jiujiang traveled north to inner-Mongolia to hike the Kubuqi Desert. This is how it happened…Every year at [...]

The Shanghai Story – page 1

Traveling from Jiujiang to Shanghai via Train – It’s an adventure sport.

The least expensive and most common form of travel between Jiujiang and Shanghai is by train. This serves as a great advantage to the travelers wallet and as the greatest discomfort to the travelers back, legs, arms, neck, shoulders, and … well, you get [...]