Day 252: Windshield
Scooters are the lifeblood of Vietnam, here a passenger grips a plate-glass window while riding through downtown Saigon. What amazed me most about watching this dangerous stunt was that is was the...
View ArticleShanghai Farewell Tour: Hello Dali
Today’s adventure on the Shanghai Farewell Tour was a trip to the South Bund Fabric Market to see about getting get a couple of pieces of clothing custom-made, something we had been talking about...
View ArticleShanghai Farewell Tour: A Stitch in Time
Having a departure time frame has heightened our awareness of the people and places in Shanghai and made the Shanghai Farewell Tour a bittersweet and exciting time; knowing that we are doing...
View ArticleShanghai Farewell Tour: Cooking with Gas
I am not a foodie: I consider dry Cheerios a good snack food. Maybe it is the result of years of believing that black coffee and cigarettes was the breakfast of champions, or maybe it’s because I have...
View ArticleShanghai Farewell Tour: Community
A few weeks ago, Melinda did some volunteer work at the Sanlinqiao Community Center and the center’s director invited her to return anytime. Today, Trish, Larry, Fiona and I visited. Some talented and...
View ArticleShanghai Farewell Tour: Hand Made
Having custom-made clothing was always part of our plan for the China experience, but we kept putting it off because “we had time.” A few weeks ago we found out just how much time we had and put our...
View ArticleShanghai Farewell Tour: Tying up Loose Ends
Ten more days. That’s it. Trish and Larry are safely back home again in Indiana, Melinda is in Redmond working and searching for a new place to live in Seattle and Thoraxis and I are wrapping up things...
View ArticleDay 294*: I Want You
it is 2 PM on Tuesday and a group of men sit on a bare mattress and play cards in this neighborhood south of the Bund. In the makeshift structures to the left other men sleep. The old neighborhoods are...
View ArticleDay 302: This is the End
I can hear a sad, old jazz melody playing in my head as I write this; 15 hours until I leave China for the final time. It has been a great 14 months, eye-opening, mind-changing, rewarding and...
View ArticleDay 317: Waiting for Shanghai
And still we wait. Our possessions were shipped from Shanghai back in early October, but a slowdown by dock workers here in the USA has caused a backlog of freight that remains on the docks, or on ship...
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