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Cab Tour.

Friday, 27-August… Rush hour. Dalian – where a $2 cab fare can sometimes get you a micro City Tour! This morning on the way to the office the traffic was TERRIBLE… I began to think that maybe my “Little Hometown”…

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Making Miyagi Proud.

I always seem to draw attention. Between my fair complexion, my latest gadget, or my penchant for hats (oh – and let’s not forget all my ‘one gram gold’!), I know these folks can’t help but stare… and I have…

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Friday 16-April (11am): My friend, Phoebe.

When I first started to put the Dalian site together, there was no team in China. Just me… me and Phoebe. Phoebe was the project manager assigned by the Dalian Software Park team to help us negotiate the task of…

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Wednesday 14-April (7pm): Hot Pot!

One of my colleagues, Tracy, had been to Nashville a year or so ago and we spent a lot of time together then. She took me shopping on Wednesday night. I wasn’t good company – the jet lag had hit…

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Wednesday 14-April (10am): Hello, Dalian!

I arrived last night. Rod Stewart is playing in the lobby. Yes, in China. And it’s the ‘show tunes’ album he put out a few years back (so no ‘Maggie’ or ‘Gasoline Alley’). I will find over the course of…

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I’m here…

Yes, I really am. My nickname of “Martha (Stewart) with a toolbelt” has never been more true. But I’m jumping ahead… It has, after all, been four days since I lost contact with “my world” and a status update is…

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Off to ChIndia!

“ChIndia,” you say? Well, yes. I’m headed to China and then India for the next three weeks. My trek to China begins early Monday morning, flying through Chicago and on to Shanghai before reaching my destination in Dalian. There’ll be…

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