First a little mythbusting – you can’t actually see the Great Wall from space. Second – if you have the chance to visit Beijing, you might want to see both the old and new wall. The contrast: A section of the Great Wall – reconstructed for tourists, at Badaling, June 2006 A section of the [...]
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Thanks to Global Voices Online, (once again! I love that site!), I’ve found a blog with a few videos of 1960s Cambodia – years before the ruin of Khmer Rouge rule and civil war. You can find the videos here. Although I have only been to a few places in Cambodia, I could instantly see [...]
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When I visited the city of Xian and the famed Terracotta Warriors, this is as close as I got: (My Sister and I in front of pit 1.) Evidently, there are people in this world that think that is not close enough! They really want to be a part of history. I read in the [...]
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I’ve been haunted by the images of Cambodia from the books I have been reading. I suppose that I grew up knowing that something happened there. I didn’t know what exactly, and had no idea the extent of the brutality, but I did know that there was a war, just as there was war in [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
