Happy on the Silk Road

As we were traveling, Galen danced around in various places throughout Western China, using the Pharrell William’s song Happy as his dancing music. Some of the shots are done in hotels, an abandoned banqueting hall, on the interstate when our bus got stopped for thirty minutes because the road between Urumqi and Turpan was inexplicably …

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Drink Horse One Army Video

Galen put together a great video of some of our time with Lily’s family in Drink Horse One Army: Don’t miss a single video from our adventure. Click the red Youtube button below to subscribe!

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 …

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Thoughts of Failure

We were in the tiny town of Huangyuan, a little more than an hour outside of Xining. I had been standing on the road for an hour and a half. We had had about ten cars stop and offer us a ride, but all for money. On this trip, we have sometimes had to pay …

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Tiantang Video

You may have already read the post on Tiantang Temple here, but Galen put together a cool video of the temple as well. Apologizes for being a little late with this. The Chinese are slowing their internet down for political reasons. We may experience more troubles down the road. We will do our best to …

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Tibetans along the Silk Road – Tibetan Gansu Part I

The invitation came unexpectedly. An old friend on Facebook saw that the post I put up on our Silk Road Hitchhiking project. She contacted me in a message, telling me that a friend of hers was in Huazangsi, in Tianzhu County, just along the Silk Road in the Gansu Corridor, and she and an Australian …

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