Wide Eyes, Wider World

Well, it's official. I'm leaving on a jet plane, and yeah, I don't know when I'll be back again. But I know it'll be som...

Our next stop after Kasghar was Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province. We were technically only in Urumqi 24 hours, or maybe 30, but it w...

After bidding smoggy, huge, and oh-so-very-Chinese Beijing adieu, my parents and I boarded a flight for Xinjiang. Xinjiang (which means ...

So the good news is that my foot is not fractured. After much hullaballoo, an under-construction hospital building (what optimists would ref...

Well, the travel gods strike again. I should have known not to try to do anything on Friday the 13th. No sooner do I find the right antibiot...

We were only in Xi'an for 1.5 days, so it was nice to "settle" somewhere for a bit before we all headed our separate ways. On ...

Following the 3.5 weeks I spent in Lanping, Liuku, and their environs, I hightailed it back to Kunming for a week of unwinding/marathon pape...