My contract ends in August but my visa to stay here ends first week of July.  There was an option to just extend the visa locally for 3 or 4 months but they couldn’t figure out that option. We were left with 2 options. Option 1 is to end the contract at the end of […]

Today is Memorial Day, and I’m doing a throwback listening to live throwing copper plus a mix of candlebox, oasis and even tool. I have said this before but it bears repeating, if you want to know more about the places I visit in each city then just Wikipedia it.  If you read any of

To pick up where I left off in late Jan during the spring festival.  (but first, I was listening to John Mayer while preparing for the post…gosh it made me sad and homesick…switch up to Bastille) The family I spent time with all week had invited me to stay with them if I ever make

YES YES, the famous Dali and LiJiang.  If there are two areas of Yunnan that people go visit, its Kunming the capital and these cities.  It took us 3 buses and about 7 hours to get to Dali, but actually we went around the lake to Old Dali which added an hour. On one of

Technically I have been to Beijing twice. Once for less than 24 hours due to a plane layover when coming back from America in Jan. and another time on a purposeful vacation of 3 days. When I was booking flights I noticed that I had a 15 hour overnight so instead of wasting my time

Let’s start with the fight.  Now, I forgot to write this story on the original Kunming post but whatever, you get it now. On the evening of Stone Forest, we met up to get a bite to eat and then headed to KTV…which was so fun.  All english songs, people enjoyed themselves, had a range

This is a post that is so far overdue that it must now be written before I go any further.  My first trip to Kunming was taken in late September 2013.  I had about 4 days off because of a holiday and it was such a great experience. I stayed at my first hostel, The

In December my grandmaw took a turn for the worse and her heart started really giving her some issues.  Near the end of the month she passed away.  I called my contact here in china to make sure that I could go, but however it was more of me telling versus asking. Anyway, in my

I’ll try not to bore you guys with all the details of the trip. Let the copious amount of pictures do that for me.  I’ll try and write the highlights and stuff I may have found interesting. Since I write these posts after the travel, I can say the following with confidence (even though I

I previous wrote about how my trip to XiShuangBanna 西双版纳  , xsb,  was postponed because of helping out the boss.  Turned out the people I was going to go with tried to go but the bus was all booked up and they didn’t even get to go. Not to mention the bus ride would have