Tag Archives: travel
China Bloggers
It’s actually painful for me to pass this on, since I want to win so badly. But it’s still an awesome contest: Mashable and VisualCV have teamed up to send a Mashable reader to China in November with Robert Scoble, … Continue reading
Durian Romance
The awesome Mental Floss Blog has a new post on 5 Innovative Ways to Encourage Safer Sex. All 5 are funny – condom ringtones, anyone? — but I just had to share this one. Ethiopians claim they hate condoms because … Continue reading
The Pastor’s Daughter
I got my license several years ago in Massachusetts, but it expired while I was in China, and now that I’m home in New Jersey, I’d like to drive legally. Today I spent a couple hours on the phone with … Continue reading
End Of Part Two
I’m still in Beijing, but I’m getting into an East Coast sleep pattern already. It comes from lying in bed wondering exactly what I’m going to do with myself next, and then waking up to an anxious countdown of time … Continue reading
Without Stick
China without Stick is strangely familiar. The children hanging on the hutong’s gate, waiting to see the foreign woman, remind me of the Yantai children, watching on the steps of my apartment and shouting to their friend when they saw … Continue reading
Other Bloggers On Visa Changes
A post on the awesome OneManBandwidth blog says goodbye to many expat friends, and mentions an unexpected side effect of the inability to get and keep a legit working visa in education: Teachers were affected about a year ago when … Continue reading
Official Something Or Other
Via Top 100 Female Bloggers | Enkay Blog Welcome to the First Official Top 100 Female Blogger List. I had previously created the Top 50 Female Blogger list which soon grew to a 100. This list is updated as of … Continue reading
New Tiananmen
I’ve got a new post up on CNReviews about our recent trip to Tiananmen Square and the stunning lack of “art students” offering us a trip to their exhibit. Check it out!
Please Get Ready For Your Arrival
My friend Hugo likes to laugh. I mean, he really likes to laugh. He can’t tell a joke because as he’s telling it, he thinks of how funny the punchline is, and laughs too hard to keep talking. He’s a … Continue reading
Pre-China Travel Note
Dear Hugo and Diana, Don’t forget that all traffic signs and road markings are purely decorative and should never be used as a guide when assessing traffic patterns. Love, Meg
