incredible!! i didn't even know you COULD camp out on the great wall!! what an adventurer you are!!! you are the only person i personally know who has done so much! you are amazing!!!
Wonderful! It is a dream of mine too - and the Terra Cotta warriors - Ok now I also want to visit Cambodia! This time next year - I will be walking the Great Wall too - because I am coming overseas to teach English!
Great wall Trisha, your comments, your pictures, take my breath away! I admit to a sinking feeling when I heard you were going back, but at the same time I am so thrilled for you. When Richard was your age he backpacked all the way down to the tip of So. Am., climbing up the Andes,hitching rides on buses full of peasants and live chickens. He loves your spirit of adventure. So do I. Grandmama
memories Seeing the sunset, tent and mtns. bring back memories of 30 years ago. Especially your comments of the wind blowing at night. I have been blown off the mtn. tops more times than I can remember, and still wouldn't pass up the view and pictures at sunset and sunrise. I realize it would be a real come down-but perhaps you might go hiking with me in the NC mtns. when you get home? Your pictures remain priceless. I was telling your mother that your next adventure should be to South America to visit tha Aztec or Mayan pyramids and caves. See you in less than two (that's 2) months!
oh my! Well now you've done everything so you can come on home for a little while. What a wonderful adventure. I always knew you had alot of your dad in you. You sure didn't get that camping gear from me.
Thanx for the welcome! Our trip went quite well, but we don't have our computer yet, so walked all over the place to find "interwang". You phone # is, of course on our computer, so we don't have that info yet. The # at the house where we live is 64111966. please give us a call; we'll take fone off the hook if we are sleeping.
We're here Linda is going to post our phone number. Please call ASAP. We have your diabetes stuff.
The embarkment point for the boat to the Summer Palace up the canal behind the zoo is right under our Xizhimen apartment where we stayed for a year. Is this a small city, or what?
Can't wait to see you.
That was a neat title on your blog, welcoming us. Took us by surprise.
Uncle Dan
So!!! You're staying? Wow! What freedom to just be able to make that decision. I am so happy for you even though I know some folks in S.C. that will be sad over this. Can't blame them either. I'm glad you're having fun;enjoying life. As for the rut- me too! I never get tired of doing the same thing over and over. Did you check out the camels at the zoo? There ought to be a law!
hope you have candles the kids say i go into emergency mode when the power goes off and it's true. i like to have water and heat and light. 80's music o.k., 80's hairstyles, not o.k.
Rebellion breaking out That wonder at what's going on when all of a sudden there's no power or water reminded me of when bombs started going off all around our apt. I thot there was a war! After more than 30 min, there was a lull, and Tyler went outside to see what was happening. There was a new Karaoke place opening next door, and those were just the superpowerful fireworks to scare demons away when you open a business.
80's music huh? Falling in love with 80's music? That's good! I like 80's music too, believe it or not. I'm proud of it too!
I'm not sure why they would cut your power off to check the sewers. I definately could see why they would cut off the water though. Yeesh. Bad plumber memories...
Try to find a stylish mask -- one that makes you look professional ;)
i got that haircut i was telling you about...she convinced me to get 3inches off. i'm a happy girl. i really am walking with confidence today -- its almost ridiculous. you know...you could e-mail me sometime...that'd be cool. or comment on MY BLOG...but thats just an idea ;)
love the hat i love the picture of the confounded tourist. It makes me wish i was there staring at all the strangeness. ice cream isn't important ,let it go. And listen to Cheryl and put on a mask because lungs are important. And please don't stop this blog because i need to keep up with rebecca too. love you every single day.
P.S. Grant is 14!! Can you believe it!?
Ice cream problem Oh, Trisha! I can't stand it that the ice cream makes you sick! That's always one of the high point of my life--running up to those ice cream freezer boxes and picking out something good. Now the 1 yuan kind (14cents) are mostly nauseating, but the nutty buddy kind, if not too old, are pretty good. Spending less than 2 yuan on IC means it's made out of water and some strange substance, or corn.
I feel the same as Francesca, I love Beijing! I also remember the "snow". We captured it on video tape and it looked just like it did. People can't believe it when they see it. Trisha, wear a mask!!! I mean it, Les got soooo sick from the pollution. Anyway, this entry made me feel like I was there. Thanks!
so i solf out to corporate coffee America...I'm a barista at Starbucks -- and its the bomb.com --seriously. so fun. i hear you are only gonna visit us Americans and you're gonna call China home. Michael wants to know hoe you get your lungs cleaned out since i told him you'd have to come home once a year to do it in order to survive...probably just clean air will do it, eh? so i'm skipping art today because i hate that class with all my heart right now and i have perfect attendance which is odd for me. i like to feel collegiate and always have one absence per class -- its nearly a must. plus i realized last night i'm behind and i just couldn't face her sarcasm and unhelpfullness. plus we get Thursday off from her class cause she's got a lecture somewhere -- anyways...gives me a week to catch up.
I'm getting my hair cut wednesday -- first hair cut since Alden and rachel cut it LAST SUMMER! its gonna be a blast. i call your phone alot these days to get mom and it startles me EVERY time b/c i get your voicemail and i like it b/c i get to hear your voice -- you real one, not the skype voice which isn't the same.
i'm "casually dating". its fun. i can be busy and not feel guilty -- because after all "its only casual". One guy is almost only a month older than me...the other is 6 years. I'm not gonna lie the 27 year old is a cutie and while down to earth he's mature and i like that. I'm so goofy all the time its good to be around someone who can pull intelligent out of his hat if he wants to -- but he's kinda gooft too. you're probably thinking i'm nuts for saying all this, but i feel okay about broadcastingmy life on your blog cause everyone tells my news before i can anyway -- like my job and the guys in my life -- mom new before i got to say anything about 'em.
so my whole life i wanted to be able to say i had read 100 years of solitude -- dumbest book i have read in quite a long time -- don't read it.
today i wish i could be that old woman and take a stroll under a pathway of blooming trees -- so peaceful/serene.
lovelovelove you.
bec.
wow, i love beijing more and more,and that is almost impossible because i am already madly in love with that big polluted city!!! i wish u a really nice day and spring!!!! big hug
cheryl
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ain't nothing over, you're way too young!! you have a lot of exploring left to do. big earth!