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Not every meal Dad & Elaine eat in China has a story behind it. Sometimes we’re simply hungry. 😂 We were exploring the area around Xi’an’s Giant Wild Goose Pagoda (大雁塔, Dàyàn Tǎ) when lunchtime arrived. Instead of searching for a...
Not every meal Dad & Elaine eat in China has a story behind it. Sometimes we’re simply hungry. 😂 We were exploring the area around Xi’an’s Giant Wild Goose Pagoda (大雁塔, Dàyàn Tǎ) when lunchtime arrived. Instead of searching for a...
Some people you meet while traveling disappear from your life as soon as the trip ends. And occasionally, someone reappears 12 years later. When Elaine first visited Beijing as an eight-year-old, Dad & Elaine joined a tour group. One of the...
There are two ways Dad & Elaine can travel Beijing. One is: Go. Go. Go. Forbidden City. Temple. Museum. Next attraction. Check the map. Walk another 15,000 steps. 😂 And then there are days like this one. We took the Beijing...
Not every day in Beijing needs to be: Forbidden City → Temple of Heaven → Summer Palace → Great Wall → exhausted Dad. 😂 Sometimes we just want to go somewhere… and spend time there. On this particular day, Dad &...
Dad thought the birthday surprises were finished. They weren’t. 😂❤️ Earlier that evening, Dad & Elaine had been traveling back to Beijing (北京, Běijīng) from Dezhou by high-speed rail. Elaine had already celebrated Dad’s birthday aboard the train — without a...
You open a menu in China. Good news: there’s English. Then you read the translation. You read it again. And somehow… you understand LESS than before. 😂 What exactly are you about to order? 🥟 The Quick Bite A translated Chinese...
You’re walking through China. A sign appears. Four Chinese characters. No English translation. You stop. Look again. “Okay… what does THAT say? 😳” For international travelers who don’t read Chinese, this can happen many times a day. At a restaurant. At...
Dad & Elaine have had this experience more than once while walking through morning markets and night markets in China. Food stalls everywhere. Something bubbling in a pot. Something hanging from a hook. Something sliced beautifully on a tray. Dad looks....
You point at a picture on a Chinese menu. It looks good. You order it. The dish arrives. You take a bite. Then you look at Elaine and ask: “Er… what exactly ARE we eating? 😂” Welcome to one of the...
Dad & Elaine have taken high-speed trains across China again and again. And one thing kept striking Dad. The trains can be packed. The stations can be enormous. Waiting halls fill with people. Then hundreds of passengers board one train while...
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