"Short stories and travel reports from my life adventures around the globe".
Memories from Lama Temple in Beijing. April 2010. I fell for Chinese temples in that first year in China — my first year in Asia — when everything about them felt fresh, fascinating, and almost magical. The riot of colours, the intricate art, the manicured gardens, the sudden hush of hidden courtyards, and that drifting […]
Read MoreBeijing’s Summer Palace: January Silence, May Heat. January 2010. May 2010. January 2015. Cover photo courtesy of xiquinhosilva. I’ll always look back on my two years in the Chinese capital as an unqualified privilege. Over time, I was able to peel back the city’s many layers—meeting its people, ticking off the major sights, unearthing hidden […]
Read MoreBeijing’s Forbidden City: Where Emperors Walked. April 2010. Sorry to tear you away from Montenegro folks, but as I reach the halfway point of that series I figure it might be a good time to hit the pause button and return to my China (2009-2010) files. Time flies, faster and faster as we get older, […]
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