Beijing bound
Here are all the people I slept with on the train ride to Beijing. Well, I slept. They played cards all night and after 16 hours together were best of friends.
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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. ... [read more]
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. ... [read more] Blog: Old & New
Date: May 10th 2006
Sometimes just a random comment can challenge an entire way of thinking. No, I’m not talking about Steve Colbert’s scathing address to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner the other day, I’m talking about a guy I met the other day. He’d asked if I’d gotten out and seen much of China in my six months here. “Not much besides Shanghai,” I told him. “I’m waiting until my la ... read more
Date: May 10th 2006
Sometimes just a random comment can challenge an entire way of thinking. No, I’m not talking about Steve Colbert’s scathing address to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner the other day, I’m talking about a guy I met the other day. He’d asked if I’d gotten out and seen much of China in my six months here. “Not much besides Shanghai,” I told him. “I’m waiting until my la ... read more
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Travel is like life, it isn't always comfortable. Like yoga, it gets us out of the comfort zone. As a traveling yoga teacher/handyman, I've not had a permanent home for some time now, preferring to try and get comfortable with the discomfort of rootlessness. In the last few years, I've lived in Fairbanks Alaska, Paris France and Byron Bay Australia. This blog started when I lived in Hangzhou China. From there I migrated to Shanghai. Now I live in Sydney Australia. In all my blogs, I try to provide you with a laugh, get you thinking and maybe help you make peace with discomfort. ... full info
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