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Beijing, China & Tiananmen Square for the Ignorant Traveler

November 16, 2023 paperbacklou 0

The first of several trips to Beijing, China was a 2-part trip — the first part found me in a wonderfully dilapidated part of the Great Wall of China an hour’s drive outside the city, […]

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Beijing, China for the Ignorant Traveler. Reminds Me of Brooklyn

November 5, 2023 paperbacklou 0

I’ve been to Beijing, China twice for a week each time, and the more time I spent there, the more it reminded me of Brooklyn, NY — the place where I was born. And I’m […]

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Great Wall of China

December 27, 2019 paperbacklou 0

My second trip to China found me in Beijing, not nearly as scary and inspiring a city as Shanghai, which had me thinking I was visiting the Death Star in Star Wars – Beijing was […]

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Bangkok — Rising Jewel of Southeast Asia

November 24, 2019 paperbacklou 0

Bangkok is one of the jewels of rising Southeast Asia; a burgeoning major world city that already boasts over 8 million people with maybe 15 million estimated in the metropolitan area, if you count uncounted […]

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Shanghai — First City of People’s Republic of China

November 20, 2019 paperbacklou 0

I landed in Shanghai at 6pm at night, and took a bus from the airport to the center of the city — a one hour ride. The People’s Republic of China — a foreign place […]

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Taipei, Taiwan — China by Any Other Name

April 26, 2019 paperbacklou 0

The first thing you notice about Taiwan are the mountains. I never knew there would be mountains. As an American growing up in the 1970’s “Made in Taiwan” meant inexpensive products created under sweatshop working […]

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Japanese Castles, Stone Walls, and Cherry Blossom Trees

April 25, 2019 admin 0

An extremely popular pin on (the now public company) Pinterest ($PINS) is the one below. We posted this originally for its Stone wall — but many people save the pin due to the beauty of […]

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Australia — And the Coober Pedy

December 24, 2017 admin 0

By Etch Australia was a great trip. I flew to Sydney alone, but didn’t once in four weeks stay in a place where I didn’t know at least one or two people I met on […]

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