The next few blogs are all about my two week study trip around China, I have them all written already, but it is 15 pages long. I will split them up so it's not just one huge entry with 300 pictures, that way people can actually read them in one sitting. The trip started in Xi'an (Terra Cotta Warriors), then we went to Chengdu (Panda Research Center), Le Shan or "Happy Mountain" (Giant Buddha), back to Chengdu (free day shopping and city park), Lijiang (4 days - mountains, shopping, relaxing), Dali (cruise on a famous lake), Kunming (industrialized, dirty, and slighty dangerous city, but they have an airport that flies to Beijing), then back to Beijing, and now I'm home in Minnesota. I hope you enjoy reading about my final adventures in China, at least for
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