Vancouver, BC
Well we’ve made it to Vancouver! We are just up here for the weekend, we just barely checked into our hotel. So far the city looks quite large and like we should be able to Continue Reading
From Milan to Milan, a post about Zurich (mostly)
Five hours trying to find a hotel? No problem for us. Three days spent in the most ridiculously overpriced, and not to mention pretty boring, city in the world? That calls for trouble. I’ll talk Continue Reading
The Always Appetizing Food of Greece
We actually ate very healthy in Greece. Part of the reason was it’s hard not to. When I saw all the good-looking girls and guys around us, I looked down at the ice-cream cone in my hand Continue Reading
Athens
A lot has happened since the last time I posted here. Now I am finally physically in the US with my husband after a two-year-green-card-application process, unlike previously I could only imagine myself being in Continue Reading
A Weekend in Paris
It has been an awful long time since the last time either of us published a post. A lot has happened since then. My wife and I are both living in the US now! I Continue Reading
Everybody loves PandA!
We flew out from Lhasa to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, where we met my university mate Qoo. Her name is pronounced as cool’er in Chinese. She knows me the best. She did not even bother to take Continue Reading
The night at the base camp of Mt. Everest
Last time I wrote about our way up to the base camp of Mt. Everest. We spent the night at the highest hotel on earth. In fact, they were just tents with electricity, but they Continue Reading
A Glimpse of Macau
After an hour of roller coaster ride on the ocean we arrived at Macau. A former Portuguese colony, Macau today is famous for its casino industry. Unlike Vegas, the city also has many natural and cultural Continue Reading
Hong Kong
I haven’t finished the Tibet ones, but tonight I feel like writing some other places instead. So Hong Kong it is. We entered Hong Kong through Futian Port. The procedure was actually faster and easier than I thought, just go Continue Reading
The Ride to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest
My husband is with me in Beijing at this moment, for my birthday, Valentine’s Day and Spring festival. I wont go into detail about how much weight I have put on during this period. I am Continue Reading
The Potala Palace
The second day in Lhasa we headed to the Potala Palace. We had our breakfast at the hotel, it was self-served, western style, and it was included in our fee. It was funny the manager Continue Reading
Zombie Apocalypse – Beijing
Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. It might be sacrilege, though I hope not, but that scripture, Psalm 23:4 is what came to mind Continue Reading
Lhasa
We took the 24-hour express train from Xi Ning to Tibet. The train actually departed from Beijing, had its layover at Xi Ning for supplies and cleaning, dropped off some passengers here and picked up the Continue Reading
DAY FOUR OF EXPLORING THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU
The next morning we left the local inn and headed to the adjacent Gansu Province to check out another site–张掖丹霞 (Danxia Mountains in Zhangye). On our way to the destination, we began to chitchat with our Continue Reading
DAY TWO OF EXPLORING THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU-
The night in the camp was fine with all the modern technology, namely the electric blankets. Still it took us a few minutes to warm up under the blankets. So far, altitude sickness had not bothered Continue Reading
DAY ONE OF EXPLORING THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU–Wifey‘s Side of Story
Alright, in my husband’s post, he said he was sitting in a tent right now typing his article. You might wonder what I was doing at that moment. Let me tell you, I was taking Continue Reading
Milan for a day
Ah Milan, the International City of Fashion, the city aspiring models dream to go to, the city young designers wish to have their work presented in, the city of many’s dreams. Yet to us, Milan was Continue Reading
Cinque Terre, and high marks for another hotel
It’s been a while, and I am way behind on posts. I am back in Sacramento now, waiting for Ziqin to be able to move over here. I now work as a back-end web developer Continue Reading
Recent Travels, so much to catch up on!
I really wish I had the time to catch up on all the posts I want to write about our recent travels. I haven’t finished writing posts about our time in Tibet, or Sichuan, I Continue Reading
Our time in Santorini – and high marks for our hotel
Well it is time I start catching up on some of these blog posts now that we are back from vacation! I am currently in Beijing, my wife is asleep, she apparently adjusts to the Continue Reading
Mt. Everest – An Unforgettable Trip
Well we made it to Mt. Everest (the Tibetan is Chomolangma so in English the Chinese use Mt. Chomolangma) and then back to Shigatse. I know this post is coming out of order, I haven’t Continue Reading
The Potala Palace
Well I’ve finally decided to add another post about our Tibet trip which is now over. Of course I am backdating this post to accurately reflect dates from our trip So on our second day Continue Reading
The Train from Xining to Lhasa, Tibet
We took the train from Xining to Lhasa starting yesterday and arrived today. All the pictures I took from the train were taken with my cell phone because I was too lazy to pull out Continue Reading
The Rest of the Xining Tour
I call this the Xining tour because that is where it started. We traveled to places outside Xining though. We even left the Qinghai province and traveled up to Gansu province close to the border Continue Reading
Day One of Exploring the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
I am sitting in a tent right now typing this, though if you are reading it that means I published it when we got back to internet somewhere (update: we are still in the tent, Continue Reading
Day One in Xining, not much to share
So we spent our first day in Xining. We didn’t really see much today, our tour of the sites around here starts tomorrow. We just went and checked out the city, we saw a temple Continue Reading
First step on the way to Mt. Everest
So we left Beijing around noon on June 18, 2014 for our trip to Xining (in Qinghai, China), Tibet (including Mt. Everest), and Chengdu (in Sichuan, China). The thing I most want to see on Continue Reading
Shenzhen
We enjoyed a couple days in Shenzhen and are now on our way to Hong Kong! After we made it here a couple days ago in the morning and got checked in to our hotel, we had Continue Reading
Hong Kong – Day One
We actually made it to Hong Kong today! The day started in Shenzhen where we got up and had a breakfast of fried bread sticks (youtiao), rice porridge (zhou), and some green vegetable that I Continue Reading
On the way to Hong Kong
I guess it’s about time I start posting on this blog. My name is Todd, my wife is Ziqin. I spent most of last year and the beginning of this year living in Kosovo but Continue Reading