I am way more adventurous than Michèle when it comes to touching things and sticking fingers in things and eating food from street vendors – (she might be right about the street food thing.) That said, there was no …
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Take Photos In Xian and the The Red Guard Will Kick Your Ass!
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 …
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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! …