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Excursion: Shenyang (Part Two)
I know you’re wondering when it will end. Don’t worry, the first half of the trip makes for a good story, the second made for good pictures.
Excursion: Shenyang (Part One)
I’ve had a mantra over the last couple of months: It’s fun to be a foreigner in China. I decided to test that claim last week with a trip to a different part of China.
Alone Together
Anyone who has been to the wall or talked to someone who has been knows it’s more than just walking.
Self-exploitation
Call me naïve, but forced depression just rubs me the wrong way. As does exploitation.
Reconciled
Waiting for my food, I watched the amulet seller outside the window. He hit up Thai and farang with indiscriminate futility. Eventually, a waiter took him out a meal. I was surprised to find myself thinking of his work as his career, his pop-up table as his desk, his guidebook-recommended restaurant at his back as his regular lunch break.
The Glass Elevator
Most people seemed aware of their ocular defenselessness. Until they stepped into the glass elevator.
Half-baked Metaphors
Thus continues a series of notes about my recent travels. I didn’t post them earlier because they were mostly written as notes or based on notes scribbled in free moments in cafés, restaurants, train stations and buses. I have tried to modify them only enough to make sense of them, not to make them read-worthy.
America [...]
There is an I in Beijing
Thus continues a series of notes about my recent travels. I didn’t post them earlier because they were mostly written as notes or based on notes scribbled in free moments in cafés, restaurants, train stations and buses. I have tried to modify them only enough to make sense of them, not to make them read-worthy.
How [...]
Break Out
Thus begins a series of notes about my recent travels. I didn’t post them earlier because they were mostly written as notes or based on notes scribbled in free moments in cafés, restaurants, train stations or buses. I have tried to modify them only enough to make sense of them, not to make them read-worthy.
I woke [...]