travel
Hiking in LongSheng
With a return trip to Beijing for work, I flew out a couple of days early to visit the mountainous rice terrace area outside of Guilin with Adrian. This is the story of our journey. Friday morning we were picked up by our driver in the city of Lingui (just outside Guilin) around 8:15am, first … Continue reading
Yunnan Mancation
Driving to the ends of the earth is one good place to find some sense of adventure. When you drive to the end of the road, where the pavement or gravel ends and the trail begins your bound to find something interesting. Since August of last 2011, right after Seth and I’s successful climb of … Continue reading
Xi’an – An Ancient City
“Everyone loves the sound of a train in the distance” – Paul Simon We’ve taken the fast train to Nanjing but we’d yet to take a night train. Knowing our time in China was short we planned a long weekend trip to Xi’an and booked our tickets on the sleeper train from Beijing to Xi’an. … Continue reading
Best of May 2012
Another group of the best of photos for the Month of May. Time is flying by too quickly. Click through on any photo for more details and information. We had took a long weekend driving trip to Datong, camping at Miles 12th annual Father and Sons campout, a visit to the Great Wall. Photos below … Continue reading
Driving to Datong
I love road trips. Stac and I have been loading up the car and driving a 1000 miles on a weekend since the first days of our marriage when we were at school in Utah and we traipse through southern Utah and northern Arizona. We saw Monument Valley in our 4 door Toyota Corolla that … Continue reading
Thailand
Our last big national and school vacation was Spring Break and Tomb Cleaning holiday. We were headed to Thailand a destination from Beijing that is only a four hour flight. Attempting to plan a holiday to Thailand is like trying to decide what food to try first at an all you can eat buffet. There … Continue reading
Best of April 2012
Another group of the best of photos for the Month of April. Click through on any photo for more details and information. We had spring break and visited Thailand and was lucky enough to get in another three weekend visits to the Wall. The most special part was catching the Wall in full spring blossoms. … Continue reading
The good, the bad and the ugly
After talking to a close friends daughter last night via FB about our feelings living abroad (she nannies in Paris), it got me thinking. We were talking about our likes vs. dislikes about the cities we live in and also the things we know we are going to miss when we move back to the … Continue reading
Best of Jan & Feb 2012
January and February were busy months, we barely returned from the holidays and Kiah’s wedding when it was time for Chinese New Year, we headed off to Myanmar and upon return I headed to the States for work. So this post is a big one as there were lot of amazing photographic opportunities. You can … Continue reading
Ngapali Beach and Home
There is something about the ocean that attracts our modern souls; a respite for rest, relaxation and restoration. Some aspect of the sun, the surf and the sand calms and soothes us; the quintessential paradise that we soak up. Ngapali sits on a nice 2-3 mile beach of white sand on the Bay of Bengal. … Continue reading