It's Tuesday morning, the beginning of our 3rd day in Beijing. With Doug as our travel guide and translator, we have been to several of the "must-see" sights already: The Forbidden City (forboding), Tian'amen Square (lovely at night), some upscale hutongs. We're also experiencing the life of a young teacher in the city: chinese breakfast of stir-fried veggies, porridge and steamed soy milk, the crush (literally) of riding the subway with the masses, a 7-course dinner for 3, complete with beer, at the local hole-in-the wall for $10. What a fascinating place this is! Bicycles a [View Full Entry]

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Here we are in the wilds of ....San Francisco. We have an overnight layover here before taking off for Tokyo and Bejiing in the morning. Just testing out the site and seeing if we can upload photos. We elected NOT to do China Town tonight....saving this experience for the real thing. So we walked the waterfront from the Embarcadaro to Fisherman's Wharf, teetered up and down the hills on the cable car, and had a great meal of seafood in a small downtown Italian seafood cafe. The restaurant reminds me a lot of my work place....very, very cozy, with the customers [View Full Entry]

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