I fell in love with China and its people. As I have written, everyone was polite and helpful (someone who likes the "straight-talk...

Perhaps somewhere in the world there are people who do not like Chinese food, but I have not yet met them. We really enjoyed all our meal...

With three weeks to tour a country (the Chinese land area is about 2.2% bigger than the United States, 3.5 million square miles) and we did...

In the cities, the people were younger, looked more professional, or looked as though they were students. As we moved into the more rural ...

For me it is ALWAYS about the people...at least that is my focus when I travel. In China, the week of October 1 to October 7 is their natio...

We left on October 6 and returned on October 26. During this time we cruised, bussed and walked a large chunk of China. The map bel...

Only one larva crawling across the pantry ceiling this morning.  They will have three weeks to reproduce and restore, but I have done the be...

Circling the wagons? The list of detail things to be done before our trip is endless. I have a house sitter who came by two days ago w...

Some of us elders have the luxury of hanging out with Millennials.  I had back-too-back late 30 and early 40 somethings for two weekends ...

My days have been filled with company and volunteer work and a few meetings. While I know that being active is very important in retiremen...