Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2007
Well, I didn’t get sick all the time I was in China…I waited until I got home for that! As it turned out, I could use the meal vouchers ($20 total) from Northwest Airlines at the airport, so I had a big breakfast (I use the breakfast term loosely, as I had more Bar-B-Q from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007
OK, so Creedence Clearwater Revival was singing about Lodi, California. I had a bad day yesterday, as did everyone trying to get to Tallahassee on Northwest. I’m stuck in Memphis and they weren’t going to get me home until tomorrow!!! That’s two broken plane cancellations out of four legs on the journey… Originally, I got [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2007
Well, I’m in the Memphis Airport, ready to fly to Tallahassee. I figured I’d have to do one last food picture, when I saw that Jim Neely’s Interstate Bar-B-Q had an outlet at the airport (and because Northwest Airlines screwed up several times (no surprise there) I got a voucher for $10 at an airport [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2007
The reason this is called “Part 1″ instead of “Day 1″ is that many impressions of Huangshan are built collectively over your stay here. Rather than give a narrative description of what I did in a timeline, I think that connecting ideas from the entire stay will work better. I hope you agree. It’s really [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2007
It’s a little awkward writing this post, after having written a little about it in a comment and then in another post, but I’ll write this as if I hadn’t written about it before. Sorry for the redundancy, if you’re reading everything… So, upon waking on Saturday the 10th, I checked with the hotel reception [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2007
I’ve been a little out of range the past few days, with lots of stories to tell. Huangshan was awesome! I didn’t go to Anji, because it looked like arranging the transportation was going to be a big hassle and I didn’t know how long it might take me to get back out of there, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2007
NOTE: Sorry for the slow load, but I’m including quite a few pictures today. The rest are here… Also, I finally got the picture of the lobby which I’ve added to the previous post. Today, I went teapot shopping. As some of you know, I really like Chinese tea and Yixing teapots (teapot is 茶壶, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 8th, 2007
Well, I finally got it…the experience of a chicken head staring at me from the hotpot (and the feet to boot)…and I didn’t have my camera with me! OK, I’m getting ahead of myself… I went to bed very early last night, about 7PM, since I was tired after riding a bike around town all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2007
Well, I’m going to do a couple of posts with just links to pictures, so the page will load a little quicker. You can see the pictures from this post here. Once again, like in Hangzhou, you get the hang of the place after a couple of days, which makes it easier to get around. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2007
Well, nobody has complained about the load time for the blog, even with all the pictures I’ve added in, so I’ve added a few more in this post. I figure this is because a) everyone has broadband and doesn’t notice, b) nobody is reading the blog, so they don’t notice or c) those that were [...]
