Weekend Trips 19 Sep 2010 0 2560 Sitting Seaside Accommodation Regarded as a major historic relic preservation project, The Astor Hotel in Tianjin is…
Weekend Trips 18 Aug 2010 0 2364 Sunny Shanhaiguan The Travelers Pat Sommer and her daughter Ellie (8), and Julie Johnson with her daughter…
Weekend Trips 17 Aug 2010 0 2515 Escape to Commune by the Great Wall The Commune’s collection of modern villas sits nestled in a green valley about 80km outside…
Weekend Trips 20 Jun 2010 0 2789 China Excursions Part 1 Inner Mongolia The trek to Inner Mongolia may lead some travelers to question whether or…
Weekend Trips 14 Jul 2009 0 824 Breakdown: The Right Stuff II Here’s a quick review of our weekend trip to Shanghai (with apologies to Harper’s Index).…
Weekend Trips 04 Dec 2007 0 1133 Lessons in Life The successes and failures of volunteering in rural China By my third day of teaching…