I read a story in the news some weeks ago about two brothers in China who had survived a coalmine disaster. They had been buried for nearly six days and dug their way out using a pick and their hands.…
I didn’t know what to expect when it came to shoes in China. The black cloth Mary Jane shoes were the first footwear that came to mind when I thought of this country. But there’s so much to see when…
It was all over the news, “burst steam pipe, rush hour on 42nd Street and Lexington Ave.” A terrible thing to happen, the worst hour of the day and one of the busiest sections of the city. This morning I…
One of our stops in China was in Chongqing, a city with a population of 6 million people. The city was spread out and we drove for miles in the city proper and everywhere we went there was either a…
I want to see if I can have writing between the pictures. So far I have not been able to figure out how to do this. Be patient with me. I’ll get this thing working for me soon. But you…
One of the side trips we took while traveling along the Yangtze River was to a place called Shennong Stream. No one on the tour really had any idea what to expect when we got there. A sampan ride through…