Our Lock overlooking the Peaks

The Amazing race- Our lock is in place

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September 17th 2008
Last night we traveled from Beijing to Xian by train. Why train? first of all I will avoid a plane whenever I can- so 13 hours is doable and secondly, I really wanted to see "inside China". Xian is in the center of China so even though we were traveling by night I figured we would have a few hours of sunlight to see the terrain. I wanted to rough it but rough it BRENDA STYLE which means ... read more

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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