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Virtual SiteSeeing: Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan Province

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Today we’ll be traveling to Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan Province. I’ve combined them because we only have one person listing each city in the thread in the forum. Chongqing Kaffee Klatsch – Three Hs – Sera’s Smile – It wasn’t just a dream – Guess which baby we got – Like Clockwork – No Autographs [...]

Virtual SiteSeeing: Jiangxi Province

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Today we’ll be traveling to Jiangxi province. Journey to Kathryn – Hamming it up in Nanchang Waiting for You – August 21, 2007 – August 22, 2007 – August 23, 2007 – August 24, 2007 Many Lives – February 2007 The blog owners of the above blogs listed their blogs on the thread in the [...]

Virtual SiteSeeing: Beijing Municipality

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Today we are taking a look at what people have done when visiting Beijing. Journey to Anna Kathryn — Walking through history — We conquer the Great Wall Waiting for you — August 26, 2007 — August 28, 2007 — August 29, 2007 Many Lives — February 2007 — February 2009 — September-November 2009 We [...]

New TSA rule: checkpoint friendly laptop bags

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Well, not exactly new, since it appears this happened in August. But I just learned of it, so it’s new to me. You can read the details at the TSA sight, but basically it means that if you buy a new “checkpoint friendly” bag, then you won’t have to take your laptop out of the [...]

Hand Sanitizers

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

I’ve seen so many people not using these things correctly that I thought it deserved a blog post. When in China we will all be using these after using a public bathroom, as many bathrooms do not have sinks, and even if they do there will likely not be any soap. Also, many restaurants do [...]

Diapers in China

Friday, April 27th, 2007

When we adopted our older daughter the diapers were adequate. Not quite as good as the ones we have in the States but still good enough. I have recommended in the past that people take diapers from home to last for the first day or two in China in case you can’t get to a [...]