A day at the beach

Through the eyes of a visitor

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June 23rd 2007
Finally after months of anticipation and seemingly endless preparations (passports and visas to apply for, plane tickets and luggage and appropriate travel clothes to buy, camera batteries to charge, PTO to save and work coverage to arrange...) I went to China. I'd never been anywhere. But thanks to Mandy's (or Amanda's depending on what phase in her life you met her) encouragement, I decided to s ... read more

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more