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Hiking Outside Beijing

Last Sunday Lu and I spent the day hiking with a local hiking club.  I knew we where going to hike a mountain and have lunch at the top but, I didn’t expect to hike four mountains. 太累了!

That being said, it was beautiful.  We where at the very western edge of the city and walked [...]

Snowboarding!

A few weeks ago a friend and I spent the day snowboarding outside Beijing.  It only cost about 80 RMB ($11.70) for the whole day and included the bus ride , lift ticket and equipment rental.  Compared to spending $100 just for a lift ticket in Colorado, it was a hell of a deal.  Check [...]

Great Hall of the People

Originally, I planned to visit Chairman Mao’s Mausoleum but we didn’t realize that the Mausoleum closed early.  So, we visited The Great Hall of the People.  The building was constructed in in 1959 in just ten months by volunteers and is the home of the national peoples congress.

Tourist are not allowed access to all of [...]

Catalina 2009

Watching the plane you are supposed to get on pull away at 6:30 in the morning, for a vacation, is not the way to start a vacation.  At least that is what I thought at 6:31 when Lu and I realized there was no way we would be taking our plane.  I was so pissed!  [...]

Scuba Diving in Lanai

This was my first time scuba diving in the ocean.  I was certified the weekend before I left for Hawaii in a private quarry in the middle of missouri.  The water was so cloudy I could barely see my hand in front of my face, so swimming in the clear water of hawaii was amazing.  [...]