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Tuesday – July 13, 10pmI went out with my Dalian team tonight for dinner. The team wanted Japanese for dinner (great…. I’m heading into Japan and need a head-start on the shashimi!) and there must have been 40 dishes served…
Sunday – July 11, evening I got back to the airport early and collected my luggage that had arrived from LAX early this morning. It is just SUCH a relief when they confirm it has arrived. And before anyone lectures…
Sunday – July 11, noonI had a different tour guide today (live and learn – she was a nice lady, but her English was very strained… and frankly, I would have had a better time shopping with Jason from the…
Sunday – July 11, noon The weather was much better today than yesterday… it was still very overcast (so not great for photography), but stayed dry through my re-walk of the Forbidden City. I’ve been here before and you can…
Sunday – July 11, 8amNo makeup. No hairbrush. No problem. I’m ready this morning after a good night’s sleep… It’s still raining here, and 70 degrees. Good Lord, I’m going to freeze. I have plans to go to Tiananmen Square…
Saturday – July 10, 3pm After getting waterlogged at Mutianyu, I welcomed some ‘inside activity’… Jason was perfectly willing to deviate from the tour and so we skipped the Cloisonné Factory and Tea Ceremony (which I had done before) and…
Saturday – July 10, Noon Well, I still want a mulligan. In golf, that’s a ‘do-over’ when you totally totally blow a shot (and you’re playing with buddies who don’t mind this breaking of the rules). I had really looked…
Saturday, July 10 – 9am [Whine Warning.] I shouldn’t complain. After all, I got my beloved Starbucks before boarding the plane… It was my last piece of happiness for the day. Crazy re-routes. Then 11 hours from Los Angeles to…
Thursday, July 8 – 10:30pm in Dallas It was a perfectly normal day … Just like any day I’m flying to Beijing… (read that with sarcasm) I should have known when an unidentified 800# came across my cell while I…
Well, you know Dalian is closer in distance to North Korea than it is to Beijing… so it would be no surprise that we went to dinner on Friday night at a place that is known for Korean barbecue. The…
