Destinations

Posts about travel and traveling. Maybe to different places. Maybe the same place.

China, Destinations

Sanya is China’s Surprising, Secret Tropical Paradise

Sanya is China’s premier tropical island beach destination. It’s full of palm trees, beaches, and crystal-clear water, but remains relatively unknown West of the former Iron Curtain. Imagine a kind of Communist Cancún, filled with Chinese and Russian families instead of North American spring breakers. Now, I am typically not the type of person who

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China, Shanghai

I Finally Broke Down and Went to Shanghai Disneyland

Disneyland. Ugh. What place on earth better represents the soulless void of American consumer capitalism? Maybe Walt Disney himself wasn’t actually a Nazi sympathizer, but he was anti-union and virulently anti-communist. I figured since I’m living in Communist China, I might as well go visit Shanghai Disneyland. If you’d rather skip Disneyland, click here for

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China, Destinations

Yangshuo China’s Awe-Inspiring Awkward Metaphors

Here’s the problem with visiting beautiful places: we’re limited by language to using cliché descriptive words and awkward metaphors. I can write about some scenery that is beautiful, dazzling, exquisite, gorgeous, handsome, magnificent, marvelous, and still not quite describe my actual feelings. This is how I feel about Yangshuo, China.

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