If you can stand all the pushing and shoving of the millions walking along The Bund in Shanghai, you can get up to the riverside rail and get a photo of the colorful and architecturally distinguished modern Shanghai skyline.
If you landed on this page to see what time it is in Minneapolis, Click this link. If you want to see some nice photos, scroll down What is below … Read more
In this second annual round-up of the books I’ve read and the beds I’ve slept in, I gotta admit I’m cutting corners on the reading list. Every year, I promise … Read more
It was a bit of an odd year for us in 2016. While we did some trips around the Midwest in the first half of the year (and Kris went … Read more
The Potala Palace is the erstwhile home of the Dali Lama and the holy of holies of Tibetan Buddhism. We got a lot of shots of the outside of the … Read more
Shanghai is frequently described as the New York City of China. People say Shanghai is to Beijing as NYC is to Washington, D.C. The comparison works. Shanghai is a port … Read more
Among our group of more than two dozen, we could feel the heightened attention as we landed at LXA, Lhasa Gonggar Airport in Tibet. This side trip to Tibet, the … Read more
It’s complicated summing up a trip like our recent travels to China. When people ask, How was China?, or What did you think? a little voice tells me they are … Read more
If you just pass through Beijing for a couple days to visit the major tourist sites, you might miss a fascinating story unfolding in this city, the story of transformation … Read more
It’s hard to get perspective on the Three Gorges Dam itself without taking a helicopter ride. We saw photos from such vantage points and they were spectacular. But on this … Read more