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Finally unpacking, I dug out my real camera and discovered that I did, in fact, carry it around for one day of the trip. So here’s a big dump of landscape photos I took while hiking around Huangshan (which is, … Continue reading →

I’m on a tour bus en route to the great wall, fighting a virus and feeling listless.  The bus just made an unexpected stop at a ‘jade factory’ which is a giant featureless building designed to extract cash from tour … Continue reading →

Millenium City Park is a sort of rennaisance fair style park which roughly recreates 10th century Song dynasty life, minus the hunger.  The architecure is based on an enormous painting, Qingming Festival by the Riverside. There were various shenanigins including … Continue reading →

In Shanghai about half the scooters were battery powered.  Now that we’re in a more recently-developed area about 9 of 10 scooters are electric, and there are also many electric bicycles with pedals.  There’s also a wide range of electric … Continue reading →

The Firewall seems to have closed around my website so it may be a while before I can post this.. This photo is of a guy making puffed wheat/rice/corn by heating it in a compression canister over a charcoal fire.  … Continue reading →

We ate more xiaolongbao today, at a very old (100+ years) and friendly restaurant. The man in the second photo is Kangdong’s brother in law who has been driving us all over the place this week.  He’s featured here so … Continue reading →

For the next few days we will be in the care of my parents’ manic friend Zhehe. He drove us from Hefei to Yellow Mountain and then on a quick tour of the old neighborhood in Tuixi. Zhehe speaks very … Continue reading →

If this photo is a bit blurry, it’s because I took it out the window of a train moving 270mph.