Shangri La The biggest reason why I wanted to come to this area is because of the things beyond the Lijiang and that is the…
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Comments closedI spent as little time in Lijiang as I could. I have called it to my mom a Chinese version of Niagara-On-The-Lake. The town…
Comments closedThe first stop of my Yunnan adventure is the provincial capital of Kunming. A typical dusty Chinese city of a few million. They are building…
Comments closedIn 1997 I finished my last semester of journalism school at Ryerson in Toronto. I was unsure of my talents and uncertain where I was…
Comments closedZili Village near Kaiping China I’m just on the bus heading back from Kaiping China. It’s a 3 hour bus ride from Shenzhen and it’s…
Comments closedThe fountains and new buildings in Zhujiang New Town in Guangzhou. The first time I went to Guangzhou was in the winter but too hot…
Comments closedI didn’t want to pay a lot for a hotel. I also didn’t want to pay for a taxi from the hostel to the Guangzhou…
Comments closedI’m on the new train from Wuhan to Guangzhou but I picked it up in Qingyuan. The train is going 285 km/hr. It’s floating on…
Comments closedMy grandmother and I I got the email while hiking and I knew it was coming. My grandmother has been ill for the past few…
Comments closedHike down the mountain. Lantau is a huge island near the Airport. It is largely undeveloped compared to the rest of Hong Kong and is…
Comments closedLast night I had a great dinner with Jack Zhang Yi and his boyfriend (whose name I forget) at a hot pot restaurant around here…
Comments closedSquidding crew I had a unique Hong Kong experience on Saturday night by going Squid fishing (Squidding as it is called by the locals) with…
Comments closedHong Kong W Hotel I have known Ben since 2001 when I met him at a gay softball league in Montreal. I hung out with…
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