Michèle and I took a flight from Shanghai to Xian mid-December 1994. Everything inside the hotel was beautifully decorated for Christmas, almost as an apology for the ever-present, dreary-gray overcast that haunted the city. We hired a local tour …

Qin Warriors Come To The US and their horses have buttholes!
NI HAO Old Friends, Sorry only 5 of you could make it. In 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that there would be a show called Age of Empires, featuring terracotta soldiers from Xian. The …
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New Zealand – Business Trip Of Terror!
New Zealand was my first eastern hemisphere country and my first country south of the equator. As soon as I arrived at my hotel, I checked to see if toilet flushed in the opposite direction. It did not. WTF! …

Deadly Bed Lizards of Belize!
Or – Excerpts From Our Honeymoon From Hell! When we went to Belize for our honeymoon in 1990, Michele was probably expecting 2 weeks of relaxing snorkeling, beautiful flora and fauna excursions and a a lot of downtime. But …