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Last Monday I awoke to my alarm at 7:15 am. I’m not one of those types that is groggy for a half hour in the morning. When the alarm goes off I am awake, plain and simple. There I was lying down and I was flabbergasted – I couldn’t imagine why my alarm was going [...]
Filed by ryanroth at August 15th, 2010 under Life
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I watched the first game of the world cup in Hong Kong. We stood outside of a bar watching it on a tv in the window. 100 or so people gathered in the street with us; beers were aplenty. Other pedestrians hurried through us as they made their way to some other drinking hole to [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 28th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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That is what Jay labeled Hong Kong. A little rough around the edges, but the remains of British control are evident everywhere. In HK the folks drive on the left side, spitting is outlawed, and English widespread. Lines exist, the people are a little heavier, littering frowned upon (steep fines), and the beaches clean. It [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 28th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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I left Guangxi province a while ago. But it was so great, I have to share a few things with you. First, Ping’an, a minority village 100 km or so north of Guilin. Rice farming is the way of life in Ping’an. Daybreak to sunset the farmers are out on their terraces working meticulously to [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 20th, 2010 under Life
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China is wet down here in the south. The past ten days or so we have been in Guangxi province. Guilin, Ping’an, Yangshou. All are awesome in their own respect. And because of that I’ve been had little time to write about my experience. I’ll get some of that taken care of on the train [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 10th, 2010 under Life, Our World
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Many of my most interesting experiences in China occur while en route to our destination. Not exhilerating or glorious, interesting. I just got off of a bus that took me us from Tankou, Anhui Province to Tanxi, Anhui Province. Just as when we traveled via bus from Hangzhou to Tankou the other day when we [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 2nd, 2010 under Life, Our World
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China is the perfect place to travel if you happen to be on a limited budget. We have eaten every meal at a restaurant since arriving. The average cost for Kristen and I is about 15 RMB (yuan) or $2 USD. We shop quite frequently at FamilyMart to gather things like water or snacks and [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 30th, 2010 under Life
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When we first stumbled out of the clean confines of the international terminal in Taipei I was shocked by the preponderance of scooters and the seeming disregard by all vehicles for any sort of traffic rules. I may have mentioned this before – my first impressions were wrong. There are rules for the vehicles, especially [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 26th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World, Politik
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Taipei reminds me of Okinawa. The jungle, the temperature, the density, the smell, the cars, and even the people.
Kristen and I took different flights and arrived one hour apart. Public transport (bus & train) delivered us to our hostel by 8 am; the train was more crowded than I have ever seen before.
Some other [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 18th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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I wonder when they’re going to start charging for drinks on airline flights. And when they do, what will the flight attendants do?
Also, I wonder if I’m going to be sitting next to this girl who is rocking Chinese sitcoms on full speaker phone on my flight. That would be comical/sad/wondrous amongst other things.
I’ll be [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 18th, 2010 under Life
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