Highs And Lows Of Traveling With A Teen And A Tween

Take Your Kid To Work Day is this week (April 28th to be exact). My blogger-buddy, Mummy-T (from TravelsWithANineYearOld) suggested that some of us traveling parents join in with the fun – even though many of us aren’t currently working – and write about traveling full-time with our kids instead. (Links to posts by the Read the Rest…

The Farmer Who Discovered The Terracotta Warriors

On our bus ride from central Xi’an to the Terracotta Warriors Museum our tour guide, Helen, shared with us some information about the history of Xi’an and the surrounding area. She cracked herself up when she searched for the English word for rooster and then, giggling, explained that China is shaped like a rooster and Read the Rest…

First Chinese Toilet Signs

I have to admit that we had a bit of a drought in humorous toilet signage after leaving Bangkok. I was sad that this little photo-blog series would have to come to an end. But folks at Rock and Wood International hostel in Shanghai saved the day with the following on their main floor public Read the Rest…

Riding The Maglev In Shanghai

It feels utterly nerdy and geeky to buy tickets for a train for no other reason than to ride that specific train. The image of a classic British anorak-wearing, bespectacled trainspotter was not far from my mind as Murph was buying our tickets for the Maglev to Shanghai’s Pudong airport. We weren’t flying out of Read the Rest…

Buying Train Tickets In China

China’s new super-fast trains are a fantastic way to travel. My guidebook (Rough Guide China 2008 ) lists the journey time from Shanghai to Nanjing as four hours. Hah! It now takes one hour thirty minutes traveling at mostly 248 km/h all the way. As we got off the train yesterday, BigB questioned why America Read the Rest…

Five Funky Things About Macau

I hadn’t planned on visiting Macau at all, but my Vegas-loving husband had other ideas.

Not For Everyone

In my mid-trip guest post for the TheVacationGals, I end by saying that a trip such as ours is not for everyone. That comment has bugged me since because I don’t clarify why I think this is the case.