Xian

Me again - this time coming to you from Shanghai, though I’ll first back-track a bit and fill you in on my last days in Xian.
I did a lot of walking to check out the various sites - pagodas, museum, drum and bell tower, to name a few. I also found myself wandering around the […]

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Beijing & Great Wall

This journal entry comes to you from Xian, as the group just arrived here this morning after a 12-hour overnight train trip from Beijing. The group consists of 10 passengers from all over the world - England, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium. There are two of us accompanying the trip as new leaders, […]

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Intrepid Training

Greetings from Suzhou, China. After a 2-hour flight from Denver to San Francisco, and an almost 13-hour flight to Shanghai, I was back in China on March 5. The next day I met many of the other new leaders for Intrepid, and we caught a bus up here to Suzhou. The past 5 days we’ve […]

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A New Job…A New Adventure

I’m currently in Denver, CO, but I’m flying out of here tomorrow. My trip takes me to San Francisco, and then on to Shanghai, China. I’ll probably spend a night there before taking a bus to Suzhou. On March 7 I’ll begin my ‘group leader’ training with Intrepid Travel, and will hopefully be […]

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