Category: Travel
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After twenty-four hours on the train I arrived back in Xining with just enough time to get showered up and have a nice Thanksgiving meal with my family and other fellow expats in our community. It was perfect timing. The irony is that my friends, J & J, left for America on a plane a…
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I do not recommend that you start your vacation this way: As you already may have surmised from previous posts, the Johnson family recently took an excursion south of the border (of Qinghai) into the Sichuan province for some western amenities and a change of scenery. We started our trip with a day long train…
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Well, we’re back from Chengdu. We arrived home last night at 9:00 p.m. Thanks to some rain in the area before we arrived, the temperatures in Chengdu were much more comfortable than I anticipated–but still balmy compared to Xining. When the sun was out the pool was the girls’ favorite place to be. My favorite…
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When you live overseas immunizations become a way of life. Our family of four have a battery of shots we have to keep up to date on in order to avoid getting some pretty nasty illnesses. Each of us has a little yellow card which we use to document which shots and boosters we’ve received…
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Christa asked me tonight, "How many people do you know who have been in 3 countries in 3 days?" My response: excluding European friends not too many. (As long as you’re speaking about consecutive days of course.) But we Johnsons have. Oh, yes. Two nights ago we were in the States. Last night we were…
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One sure-fire way to *NOT* blog is to say in a post that you foresee "abundant posts in the future". It’s a little thing called Murphy’s law. Since I mentioned back on the 18th that I would be posting more frequently, there have been, uh…about 2 posts… And now we’re rounding the corner on the…
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OK, it’s finally confession time. As most of our community in China (and a few individuals in the States) have known for some time, the Johnson family plotted a great conspiracy by surreptitiously returning "home for the holidays". Yes, that’s right! We are back in the United States of America as I am typing this…
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In lieu of a truly informative trip-summary type post, here’s a photo album depicting some of our latest adventures in Beijing and Xian. We could have taken more pictures, but our memory card was full before the end of our week-long trip. Plus, it was so miserably hot and humid in Beijing and Xian the…
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yeti speak... 