THE DREAM IN ACTION

Photo was taken flying over Alaska on the way back from China. Use Dopplr to Document Travel I’ve been using Dopplr for a couple of years to document and share my travel itineraries. It’s nice to be able to see who will be where and when, and how our trips align. You can see my [...]

My last day in China was another amazing one. I decided to head solo to Tongli, one of the ancient water cities in China. I was to arrive at the bus stop by 8:30a and travel for about 2 hours by bus to Tongli. I chose Tongli because my guide book said that it was [...]

Pedestrians absolutely do not have any kind of right of way. Really nobody in Shanghai has a right of way. At one point I was in a cab at 9pm (dark) and there in front of us was a guy on a scooter with no light coming directly at us. He was honking that we [...]

Tomorrow I’m headed out of Shanghai for a solo day trip to Tongli, Suzhou. Tongli is a water city also known as the Venice of the East. Apparently the stand-out features of this rural, authentic, and tourist light city are the beautiful bridges and the Chinese sex museum. No, that was not a typo. I’m [...]

I spent the last 2 hours relaxing at a tea shop in a market called Tea City in Zhong Shan Park, Shanghai. As I read (4 Hour Work Week) the man running the shop (Wu Jin) prepared and poured tea in the typical Chinese fashion. My goal was to read, relax and have tea. The [...]

Sunday night photo from the Bund on the opposite side of Pudong, in Shanghai, China. Tonight we are headed to Skybar at the top of the needle behind me. Yes it is true, the dream is certainly in Action! Here are some pics from the trip thus far. I’ll be updating the China 2009 set [...]

  I’ll probably end up posting a cumulative version of this list at the end of my trip but I wanted to share a few of the crazier things I’ve experienced here in Shanghai over the first week. Some are just cultural and some are just weird…some are both. -massages while urinating – You know [...]

Today I’m traveling around solo in Hong Kong, the first of my 3 city month in China. We’ve been here for 2.5 days and we leave on Saturday evening. First impressions: amazing city. When we first arrived we hunted around for a place to stay on the Island of Hong Kong. The places were expensive [...]

As you are reading this post, I’m likely on a plane a la Shanghai, China. This image of Shanghai was taken by my friend Blake when he was on this same trip 1 year ago. I’ll be in China for about a month and for that time this blog will likely (temporarily) transform from a [...]

The next few months are going to be crazy. I just moved out of my apartment, then I’m heading to San Diego for Christmas on Wednesday morning. I’ll be out in SD until January 6th spending time w/ family, meeting my San Diego based Twitter “friends” and hopefully getting some sweet stuff for Christmas. Then [...]