We left for Shanghai on Monday morning, and at first glance the Nanjing train station did not look promising for easy travel. The place was PACKED. It’s a holiday week for a lot of people due to National Day, and the boards showed all the trains as sold out. This isn’t the end of the […]
When I visited China, almost exactly one year ago, I flew into the Shanghai airport. Chris met me there, and we had three hours to kill before our train to Nanjing left. So we walked down Nanjing Road, which blew my small town Arkansan mind - between the jet lag and the total sensory overload […]
Good grief, what a week. I staggered off the plane around 9:30 Monday night, which according to my biological understanding of time should have been 10:30 Tuesday morning, spent the night in Little Rock, drove to New Orleans, saw my sister, drove back to Harrison, spent the night, drove to Arrow Rock to see my […]
If you’ve never been to Harrison, just trust me. The sign’s funny.
Ok, so tomorrow I’m getting on a plane to go back to the states to see family and friends, drink tap water and cherry coke, eat real Mexican food, buy conditioner meant for my freakish foreign hair, take bubble baths after eight months of standing showers, freely talk to strangers without having to struggle for […]
Ok, we took over 800 pictures and I would be being extremely unreasonable if I expected you to read everything I just wrote, but it’s here if you want it- first there’s an overview of where we stayed, and then it’s chronological. And if you want a better written version of the whole thing, chris […]
The island of Boracay is about 7 km long and shaped like a drumstick. White Beach covers most of one side of the skinny leg part (Bulabong Beach is on the other side – maybe a six minute walk if you’re taking your time). White Beach is a Resort Area, which emphatic caps, and there’s […]
We woke up on Thursday sunburned, blistered, and sore, and couldn’t even convince ourselves to go for a last swim. So we went out for breakfast at Paradise Grill (decent, relatively cheap breakfast stuff – bacon, pancakes, eggs, etc.), and then checked out of our hotel. We got a tricycle guy to take us to […]
We slept kind of late, which felt good. I woke up pretty sore from all the rock climbing the day before, and it seemed like a very good idea to take it as easy as possible. We went to Jammers for lunch, and then met up with Felix and John, who came to our hotel […]
On our third day on Boracay, we got up surprisingly early and went out for a swim and then breakfast (I had that omelette again). Then we headed down the beach looking for a guy selling dune buggy rides, since Leif and Lily had a blast doing that while they were there. The nice thing […]