After we said farewell to our last wedding guests Ashley and I took a trip, not our honeymoon, up to the Boundary Water Canoe Area (BWCA) in the Superior National Forest. It was supposed to be a short three-day trip between Seagull Lake and Saganaga Lake but we wrapped it up a day early because … Continue reading
Ashley and I have clearly neglected our blog for which we’re sorry. We’d proclaim that one of our joint New Years resolutions was not to do so, but with the wedding there is a chance it might happen again. So! How about this instead. Our resolution is to not let our blog sit idle for … Continue reading
Baseball is without a doubt my favorite sport to watch and why not, it’s out national past time after all. So there was something about watching future MLB stars in a Cape Cod League game on a comfortable mid-summer’s night that was especially enjoyable. For a four-dollar donation Ashley, her parents and myself were treated … Continue reading
Taipei has a reputation for being an ugly city and for the most part it is. Buildings were seemly constructed with only practicality in mind and without any creative inspiration. Even in heart of the city center where rent is astronomical buildings are covered grey bathroom tiles. The tiles might have once been shiny and … Continue reading
About 150 km south of Chengdu stands one very foggy, holy Buddhist mountain known as Emei Shan or 峨嵋山. The 3099m high mountain is one of four holy Buddhist mountains in China (Putuoshan in Zhejiang province, Wutaishan in Shanxi and Jiuhuashan in Anhui – in case you didn’t notice “shan” is mountain in Chinese). Emei is … Continue reading
After a lot of back and forth at work on whether I would need to be in Chongqing Monday morning it was finally decided I would not. However the travel bug had set in so Ashley and I made good of our non-CPH3 weekend and went in search of a new piece of Sichuan. Located … Continue reading
Image Source Here It’s a pretty daunting idea that a good part of 1.3 billion people will travel somewhere to visit some part of their family during this week. Travel is a huge part of Chinese New Year and it is common for shops and restaurants to close for an amount of time closely correlating … Continue reading
Goodbye cold mornings. Goodbye great gray blanket. Goodbye China, at least for the next three weeks. Ashley and Phil are headed to South Africa. Our flight left a dreary Chengdu at 2:00, the scheduled departure time, for Hong Kong. Rushing into Central and making it to Tin Hau to catch up with Jeff, Werner and … Continue reading
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