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Thursday, February 10, 2011 I’ve been in Bend, Oregon, now, for nine days. Of course I’ve been meaning to blog more often. If you haven’t caught any of my facebook comments, here is the skeleton overview: Since November, I’ve been in Los Angeles, Reno, San Diego, Berkeley, Eugene, Seattle, Kenosha, Seattle and Bend. Before I […]
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 For years, Ben was always the one of the two of us who knew how to get places. He could have been somewhere once fifteen years ago, and still navigate like he’d been there every day. I’ve come up to LA a number of times over the past decade, but never […]
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 I’ve got two yoga mats, a hula hoop, handstand blocks, my sewing machine, three laptops, two bins of fabric, work clothes, fancy clothes, yoga clothes, rock climbing shoes, snow pants, a down vest from Dinah and a windstopper fleece from Cheryl, and a bike rack that could be worth more than […]
November 9, 2010 (This entry is actually from early August, in the last few days of my China trip. I’m in Reno now, and I’m finally getting around to finishing this and posting it.) Hong Kong came and Hong Kong went. A large Asian city with an even denser forest of even taller buildings than […]
is that we have two internet cables, so Patti and I can both surf the web at the same time. We almost had wireless access in Yangshuo, but not quite. Though I have to sit on the floor in the middle of the room with the laptop balanced perfectly on my lap in order to […]
I know you would have eaten this. We did not.
Monday, Aug. 2 I slept late, and Patti came back up to our room to tell me she was going on a boat ride in 15 minutes if I wanted to join the group. There was still much confusion about what kind of boat on which river, but I hopped out of bed. I had […]
Wednesday, Aug. 4 Last night–3am, really, after a midnight flight and hour long bus rides on both ends, we returned to our home base in Shenzhen, but only for the morning. Today was the day when our group splits up. Some were flying out in the evening; some went on to travel elsewhere. I went […]
Sunday, Aug. 1 Yangshuo Yangshuo is a vacation town. The scenery is straight out of a Chinese watercolor. The Li River runs by, and there are caves and mudbaths and hiking and vanishing tribes shows. This morning we had western-style breakfast at our hotel—salty scrambled eggs, fake orange juice, and white toast. The Chinese-style breakfast […]