This post was written together with Danielle and also appears on The Roaming Coconuts. Well not quite, but we want to see how many times we can use the same Tupac reference on our blog. We first made a brief stop in Bijie to visit Silvia's college ...
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Hitchhiking in China
Leaving Central Asia, we knew we were in for a bit of sticker shock. Food and accommodation in China can be quite cheap, but transportation? $40 for twelve hours on a smoke-filled bus. Not ideal. So when Will, our new Chinese backpacker friend, mentioned that he was ...
(Wild) Western China
This post was written together with Danielle and also appears on The Roaming Coconuts. I have strangely few memories from my early childhood (sorry Mom and Dad). One of my most prominent is from a family vacation to the Bahamas when I was in first grade. One ...
Eating Our Way Through Kashgar
When we arrived (for the third time!) in Sary-Tash, we were informed that we were lucky—the following day was the last before the border to China closed for ten days. Now, Sary-Tash is great for a day, maybe even two, but ten? I would go crazy. Plus I’m not sure if I could ...
Dumplings and Naan in Kashgar
If Danielle had blindfolded me for the 72-hour train journey (uh, thanks for not doing that though) and secretly led me to Kashgar, looking around I doubt I would have been able to guess which region of the world she had taken me to. Over two thousand miles from Beijing, ...