China holds a special place in my heart.
Having two daughters from China, our family naturally has an affinity for the people and the country. I have visited three times and I love the culture, the people, the country, and the food. This is where you’ll fine all the posts I have about our trips and experiences.
Hong Kong Day 3 and 4
Hong Kong is a big city and the number of stores, little shops, food stands, and people is just amazing ...
Hong Kong Day 2
Our first full day in Hong Kong started off a bit rough. The air quality here is poor and that, ...
Guangzhou to Hong Kong
The train from Guangzhou to Hong Kong isn’t a bullet train, but only takes about an hour and a half ...
Why you should stay at the Garden Hotel
I’m writing this as a separate post because I was impressed with our stay and when we mentioned it, our ...
Huazhou to Guangzhou
Before leaving Huazhou, we had an interesting experience as we went to breakfast in the large dining room downstairs of ...
Yangshuo Mountain Retreat
After many long days touring and travelling, our group checked in to a mountain retreat and I must say, the ...
Xian to Chengdu
The chronicling of our trip continues and for those reading along, thanks for bearing with me. The days are full ...
Beijing to Xian
We wrapped up our Beijing visit with a visit to the Temple of Heaven. This was the place the emperor ...
Beijing Part Two and Personal Space
Our second day in Beijing was spent checking off another couple Beijing must-dos off the list. We went to Tiananmen ...
Beijing Part One
It really feels like our first day in China was equivalent to 3 days. Days 2 and 3 weren’t quite ...
Mudanjiang
Our trip started out on a high note, for sure. We travelled from Anchorage to Seattle to Vancouver and then ...
Technology
This is an oldie but goody. This is Amanda and I on our trip to China to pick up Jenna ...
The journey continues…
Well, we have now completed our family and this is the start of a hopefully regular update on life with ...
Goodbye Guangzhou
Yes, this is it, and the post will be short because it is late and we have to still pack!!! ...
Market walk
As I mentioned, today was a shopping day. We walked from our hotel to the wholesale jade and pearl market ...
Happy days
Well, I have great great news to report… Carli Crying Countdown is retired, hopefully forever. I know you all have ...
Running with the bulls!
Ok, not really, but I had a great time thinking so. I went out for a run this morning. I’ve ...
Hello Guangzhou!
There was a welcome familiarity as we drove into the driveway of the White Swan – we spent two weeks ...
So long Harbin
Well, today was our last day, and it was sort of bittersweet. We’re all ready to move on, and we ...
Ready to go…
Well, I think we’re all ready to move on to the next spot. It just feels that way. We’re here ...
Lions and tigers and… girls
Today was a field trip to the Harbin Tiger Zoo. This complex houses over 300 Siberian tigers, White tigers, and ...
Joy upon joy
Well, for all of those that reassured us of the nervousness we felt going to pick up Carli, thank you ...
Gotcha… forever!
We woke up this morning to a cold and smoky Harbin. If you have been to Fairbanks at t he ...
Super Bowl, Super Day!
Well, tomorrow, while Alaska is watching the Super Bowl, we’ll be holding our new daughter. We are slated to pick ...
More Beijing
Ok, the first message was just to get something up to let people know we made it safe. And, I ...
We have arrived!
We finally made it to China! The flight was good… better than expected. We had video on demand, so everyone ...
1 down, 2 to go
Here we are in the Seattle airport waiting to board our flight to Tokyo. This is a 10 hour flight ...
Broken bones, broken plans
Ok, it has been an eventful couple of days. Although I planned to work a bit Sunday, pack, and generally ...
1 week to go…
In just a week from now we’ll be in the air somewhere over the Pacific, probably sleeping, and trying to ...
The beginning of the blog, but not the journey
We have our plane tickets and are set to leave for China on February 1 to pick up our daughter ...
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