year abroad

We finally arrive and go straight to dinner. Pretty much since I’ve been here a week now,I can say the standard place to eat always looks a bit dirty. I mean we walk in and it’s just not clean floors or walls and things seem to just be out in the air. I found out […]

I started my trav But apparently United charges for second bag while others don’t, to Asia that is. When at lax the Malaysian airlines had another surprise for me. Oh no sir you must check your carry on, over fourteen pounds. There is another 110$ gone. But it wasn’t quite that simple, my computer and

It’s only appropriate to give you, the reader, the back story, as it were, on how I got this China gig. ((As a side note, I am probably going to write much like I talk.  Get side tracked at times, maybe some grammar errors, use words erroneously, potentially have something that could be taken wrong

Moving. We have all been there.  Mine feels a little more complicated, since I have to have to make the choice of bringing something or leave it in storage. not to mention I can only bring 50 pounds of stuff in the luggage, and a carry on (which I will have most of my electronics

For my first post, I decided to make it a background of the Yunnan Province. Rather than a what I am doing to prepare for the trip. I took this from Wikipedia  17,000 species of plants, 2,500 are endemic Less than 4% of the land of China Over 800 varieties can be found in Yunnan.