Drink Horse One Army Video
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Archive of entries posted on July 2014
Lily’s Neighbors – Part IV
Make sure to read the previous posts: here is the first, the second and the third post. These three posts will give the background necessary to understand this sad post, the final in the series of post at Lily’s house in Drink Horse One Army. On our first evening in the village, Lily’s father took …
Lily’s Family – Part III
Make sure to check out Part I and Part II before reading this post. Lily’s mother was waiting for us in the basketball court as Mr. Gao’s van pulled up. She was well dressed for a middle-aged village woman, wearing tight pants, high heels and pearls. I greeted her warmly, and she welcomed us into …
Cutest Animals along the Silk Road – Part I
As many of you know, I am married to a veterinarian. As I travel along the Silk Road, I have tried to send my wife photos of some of the animals we encounter. Since Sunday is our slowest day as far as clicks go, I’ve decided to throw up some photos just for fun. So, …
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Bubonic Plague and the Silk Road
I am happy to announce that Galen and I are far away from Yumen, the city near Drink Horse One Army, featured in this post and this post and to be featured in two more posts. We are happy about this because, if we were there, we might not be making our flights back to …
Village Settings – Part II
Make sure to check out Part I of this story. We arrived in Yumen, Jade Gate, a tiny Silk Road town that, like so many places in China, had no vestiges of its history remaining. I called the number Lily had given us, and, a few minutes later, Mr. Gao appeared with his van. We …
Invitations – Part I
Since we had arrived in this touristy Silk Road town, I had been trying to figure out how to get to the Qinlian Mountains, the white capped peaks beckoning us from a distance. The mountains were beautiful and looked wild. Only fifty miles away, no one had any idea of how to get there, not …
Hotels and Foreigners
China has long had a law allowing foreigners to only stay in hotels approved for foreigners. Yet, despite this law being on the books, I had never been turned away from a Chinese hotel in the two years I lived in this country, from 2006 to 2007 and then from 2009 to 2010, no matter …
Camping at the Great Wall – Fake Histories
History is history, facts are facts. No one can change can change history and facts. – Xi Jinping, Head of the Chinese Communist Party, President of China, in remarks directed at Japan on the 77th anniversary of its invasion of China. The rebuilt Wall is better than the old one. If we did not rebuild …
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Hitchhiking and Job Offers
Galen was out of commission that day. He had spent all night in the bathroom, fighting with what he referred to as General Tsou’s Revenge, so I was visiting the sites solo that day. (By the way, if you find yourself in the center of the planet’s largest continent, I would recommend avoiding the all-you-can-eat …