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March 11th 2006

Published: March 30th 2006

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Chance and Teresa

T square in Beijing

We are about to leave Beijing for the train station. This place is pretty wonderful. We saw the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Lama Temple, a Taoist Temple, Tianamen Square. We ate pizza for 25 cents, pork kidney and liver (surprising yet tasty) with beer and fixins' for $5, sushi for $15, and some delicious Peking Duck. We met people from Canada, Britain, India, and China.

We only got duped into one "Art Exhibition" and we can now count to 9,999 in Chinese. We also know the symbol for beef and we are working on mastering the phrases, "No thank you, I don't want to buy anything," and, "Can I have the check please?" Things are going well.

We are now off to Xi'an en route to Shanghai through Zhengzou. This short little summary doesn't do justice to all of the things we've seen and learned but we still haven't had an opportunity to put pictures up so it will have to do.

Vietnam is nixed off the list. Too much red tape and too much time to wait in Hong Kong have led us to going in different directions. We'll be in China until the 29th

Our pals that showed us around

of March and then we fly directly to Bangkok from Hong Kong.

China plans to be the premier tourist destination by 2020 and it's obvious that we are a few years early. We keep reading about all this amazing stuff that will be happening (less restrictions for getting into Tibet, faster trains, more trains in certain cities, the Summer Olympics, etc.) but it's still pretty damn cool...literally. We saw snow this morning but otherwise the weather has been great.

Just wanted to fill you guys in on the goings on. We'll update again soon.

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Robertson

Chance and Teresa

Teresa and I decided to drop everything and see the world. We got married January 29th of 2006 and figured what better way to honeymoon than a trip through Asia and Europe? We'll spend March and April going through Japan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, India, and Nepal and then the next 4 months or so traveling through Europe. Check here to see where we are, what we've seen and where we go next. 6/6/07: Now it's just me, Teresa, going to Spanish school and traveling around Honduras!... full info