Dates Traveled: September 2009
This past break illustrated how spoiled Rhona and I are when it comes to the time we have to travel. I only had a 5-week break rather than my standard 6. I finished work on August 26, flew from Hammerfest, Norway, on the 27th, and arrived in Kashgar, China on the 28th. […]
Dates Traveled: June-July 2009
Beijing
While in the Beijing airport Rhona and I both commented that we weren’t looking forward to running the gauntlet of taxi drivers. In the past, dodgy characters would approach you and steer you to a ‘taxi’, and then charge an exorbitant rate. When you stated you were taking the bus, they’d say […]
Dates Traveled: September-October 2008
Hong Kong
My six weeks of work finished on September 24th, and I immediately caught a flight from Norway to Hong Kong. Friday morning I turned my passport into an agency to obtain a Chinese visa, but because the visa wouldn’t be ready until Monday, I had a weekend to kill in Hong […]
Well, once again it’s been a couple of months since my last entry. In that time I’ve run a 1-month Tibet trip, as well as a 3-week trip which just finished in Hong Kong a few days ago. However, as those trips have been described in detail in previous entries, and because we didn’t really […]
Well, it looks like it’s been almost 2 months since my last entry. That has nothing on the 7 months it used to take me to send out an update/e-mail, but I’d envisioned doing these online updates more frequently. What happened? Basically laziness….no other excuses. Anyway, on with the update…
Last I left you was early […]
