Saturday July 14, 6:30 am. *****click here to see my new YouTube video from Dalian***** First full day in Dalian is history. We started out going to the free breakfast at our hotel. It was not what I expected. Lots of green salty vegetables, a few of which were, according to my friend Miao, "from the sea." Miao seemed to enjoy her breakfast, as did the other 75 people that were waiting for the chow bell to strike at 7am. Me? I ate a few pieces of "cake" that was actually quite delicious (think jiffy cake with no frosting [View Full Entry]

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Well, I am here. Got some great photos and video already, but in this internet cafe the computers are very slow and my laptop battery is about to run out, so I only got a couple of quick things to share. Beijing was smoggy flying in. Made L.A. look like the wild blue yonder. Some coolie kid that would not take no for an answer lead me to my connecting flight then tried to "extract" some bogus charge because my "bags were too heavy" and tried to pretend that he represented the airline and I had to pay him 400 [View Full Entry]

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Ni hao! (Chinese for "hello!") Well, here is the new location of my travel blog to China. I will be leaving next week for almost 7 weeks in China, primarily in Dalian and Beijing, with a few little stops along the way. I am going to keep this post short so I can see how this looks, and if you want to subscribe to my blog then you will get updates whenever I add a post. Or, if you don't want to subscribe just check back now and then and I will try to keep everyone informed as to what I [View Full Entry]

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