Our last stop in China was in the northern port city of Dalian, where my cousin Rob, his wife Amalia, and their two children live. I spent my last four nights there before heading home, and Kelsey remained there for…
Category: China
Family in Taiyuan
My brother-in-law Jon and his wife Lan left New Hampshire with their 3 year old son, Jonah, and arrived in China a few days after we did. They went directly to Taiyuan to visit her parents. We decided at the…
Beijing and a trek to the Great Wall
We took the bullet train from Tianjin to Beijing. Then we had to figure out how to get from the train station and into a taxi that would take us in a reasonable amount of time to our hotel. We…
Tianjin
I must have been tired and distracted because I didn’t get many photos of our time in Tianjin. I suppose that’s understandable because we only spent about 24 hours there before moving on to Beijing on the bullet train! Here…
Zhuhai
We stayed at Bob and Jene’s home in Zhuhai for 4 nights. It was the perfect place to begin familiarizing ourselves with a Chinese neighborhood, with its sights, sounds, and smells. One evening, I went with Jene to the English…
Crossing the Border
Crossing the border from Macau to Zhuhai was an interesting experience. Although we each had luggage with four wheels, we did what many people do. We hired one of the people waiting on the side of the road with a dolly…