Our Travels

I’m still alive, we’re now both unemployed, we have jettisoned most of our worldly ‘stuff’.

OUR 52 PLACES FOR IN 2019…

We’ve decided to travel to 52 places this year and also start a movement. The 52 places thing is because a New York Times journalist did it already. It looks like fun but it’s best if we check, just to make sure. So, in May 2019 we are heading off to China and South East Asia to see what’s there.

The starting a movement part I so casually tossed in there?

Well, I want to capture metadata about the lives of people who’ve been affected by brain tumors, so I can check for possible correlations and possible sets of causes in support of my theory, which says that some brain tumors may be show up in response to emotional trauma. I think that they can appear as an expression of it, like a physical metaphor for a psychological problem.

And the China part, why China?

Well, my wife is second generation Chinese, and symbolically this trip represents a return to her roots. I am fascinated by the thought of discovering China, or bits of it, and telling you what I find there. Hitch a ride and I’ll share my thoughts and observations. It’s a cheap way to travel and you won’t even need a passport.

We’ll be starting in Hong Kong and moving North East to Fujian, then on to Taiwan, back to Shanghai, Nanjing Hefei, Huangshan, Wuhan, Zhangjiajie, Chonging, Chengdu, Xian, Luoyang, Pingyao and Beijing. If you just glossed over every one of those words, then don’t worry. I’ll be learning to pronounce them correctly for you (I hope!)

After Beijing, we’ll either take the train to Tibet or a plane to Thailand, then Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia if we’re lucky.

I haven’t been counting, but I bet we’ll still be short of 52 places

bund.jpgshanghai — Birthday in Shanghai

Everything has beginning and end. Except …

Tianmen+mountain — Tianmen Mountain

Melting pot- Koreans, Russians, Chinese and Americans together…

Yellow Mountain

Don’t think the French people like to come here

Dazu District

Who commissioned those artist ?

fUZHOU

Fish balls with pork meat inside and the root of it all

Taiwan, Taipei

it was pronounced to be “Most Progressive country” in Asia

GULANGYU ISLAND

Pedestrian at its best

chengdu — CHengdu

Traditional opera and the new travel routes in China

Xi'an terracotta warriors — XI’AN & THE warriors

It is cheaper to buy new, than washing it…

zhangjiaje — zhangjiajie

Elevators, cable cars, a place not to miss on your trip to China

Emeishan — Emeishan

Keep a plastic bag near you, the road up the hill is rough

Leshan — Leshan formerly jiading

Visiting one Giant Buddha at a time

jIUFEN, tAIWAN

They said “Santorini of the East” , so we went to see it

HONGCUN VILLAGE.jpg — hONGCUN VILLAGE

They got rid of the pigs long ago

hONG kONG

Causeway Bay and and a night spent hanging out with dad at Lan Kwai Fong

DSC05435.jpgxiamen — xiamen

Do you know the retirement age in China?

Nine-Bend Creek (九曲溪)

Even those who can speak it, sometimes they can’t get it

Fujian+tulou — Fujian Tulou

Is tradition worth preserving in formaldehyde

CHONGQING

No way, we are not talking about the Three Gorges Dam

Donghu digital city

This is the future, just that you did not know it

suzhou (2).jpg — sUZHOU, a city west of…

What is your capacity for visiting “lingering gardens” at a time?

TRAIN RIDE TO Huaihua

Lower your expectations. Luxury lives elsewhere.

luoyang — Luoyang

Just get a lock box at the train station , and off to Beijing

beijing

She prefers to come to the USA, HE FINDS MORE OPPORTUNITY IN CHINA

Indonesia, visiting bali

Keep on floating, life is short, or long… it depends on your prospective

Bulgaria and rila

We got hailed on, the mountain gratitude

visiting japan

Better yet, visiting Kyoto with a selfi-stick

Tokyo INDULGENCES

Because we always wanted and life is not to put off things for later

IMG_20190303_101911 (4).jpg — AN YEAR AFTER BRAIN TUMOR SURGERY

Climbed to 5200 m above sea level, Rainbow Mountain

Istanbul in June

Irresistible capital of the Empire of the past

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