Travel – China Archive
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![I attended the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and lived to tell the tale. I’m not sure how I did it, but I managed to pull it off. I knew it […]](http://nerdynomad.com/wp-content/themes/arras-theme-master/images/thumbnail.png "I Survived the 2008 Beijing Olympics")
I Survived the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Posted on August 25, 2008 | 1 CommentI attended the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and lived to tell the tale. I’m not sure how I did it, but I managed to pull it off. I knew it […] -
A Great Intro to the Olympics
Posted on August 9, 2008 | No CommentsWe couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to the Olympic spirit than our first day of events. We had a 2pm women’s basketball game to kick off our ridiculously […] -
Fog (Smog?) Descends on the Great Wall
Posted on August 6, 2008 | No CommentsIn an effort to cram as much in as possible before our busy Olympics schedule was to begin, we booked to head out on a tour of the Great Wall […] -
24 Hours in Xi’an
Posted on August 5, 2008 | No CommentsI have to admit that I’m a bit of a crap traveller. Given the choice of seeing something famous or actually doing something and meeting people, I’d probably choose the […] -
Getting There is Half the Fun?
Posted on July 24, 2008 | No CommentsEverything was telling me to stay put. I really love Fenghuang and found a great hostel, I really hate Hong Kong and haven’t found a decent place to stay so […] -
The Sounds and Smells of Fenghuang
Posted on July 18, 2008 | No CommentsI have just escaped the noisiest hotel I have ever experienced. The hotel is made of wood and I think it has a family of elephants living on the floor […] -
Covert Christian Couchsurfing
Posted on July 15, 2008 | No CommentsAfter two years of being a member of Couchsurfing, I have finally surfed for the first time and it was great! I stayed with a local girl in Guanxhi province and […] -
A Day of Festivities and Bus Rides
Posted on July 12, 2008 | No CommentsAfter three uneventful but very relaxing nights at the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces, it was time to make a move. The morning of my departure though saw the village explode […] -
Internetting in the Villages of China
Posted on July 8, 2008 | 9 CommentsI’m in a little village whose name I can’t remember in a provence whose name I can’t even attempt to spell and I don’t have a guidebook with me at […] -
Hanging Out in Yangshuo
Posted on July 3, 2008 | No CommentsYangshuo is the kind of place you hate to love. It’s touristy as hell and doesn’t really even feel like it’s in China, but it’s beautiful, fun, packed with things […]