Thats all folks! We made it back home after a grueling 13 hour flight how they can get those planes off the ground with so many people and things on them is a miracle. Asians seem to travel with all of their worldly belongings.So til next time take it easy.Keith

Hey remember when you were a kid (this might only applie to AMericans)they said if you tunneled to China everything would be upside down? We have reached the end of our holiday here in Communist China and I would wonder what all the freaking out was so many years ago about Communist? EVerybody heres seems content with their life whether it be the guy sweeping the road with what looks like a broken mop or the old men sitting in the park reading the paper. Yest...

Yesterday was a quick city tour to the Bund which is where you can view the city skyline from the river and it was foggy so our picturs were not so good. We then traveled over to the street markets and joined in on the New Years picture taking of all the ox around the market,this year is the year of the ox by the way. We haggled with many vendors for "Best Price" and bought lots of cheap Chinese trinkets go figure. They have the lastest remote helicopte...

Well our last in country flight brings us to Shanghai at rush hour,not to worry we got a good look at the buildings here in town. China has a nack again of lighting their buildings with neon and led lights the other night we saw an entire side of a 30+ tall building as a tv screen and it was clear as a bell here in SHanghai one building was playing Tetrus. I don't have much to report here yet as we just arrived went down to the local resturant area and decided th...

Well my card reader died and getting photos uploaded is a challenge here in Xian. We finished our tour of Beijing with a visit to the Temple of Heaven and a quick flight over to Xian for a look at the Terra cotta Soilders. First before I forget Beijing for a city of millions it could not be much cleaner than it is now at 9:00pm they were still polishing the tops of the garbage cans and picking up the smallest of trash on the roadways.I also took notice that in C...