Just to expand on the atypical trip:
I know it’s a long trip when there’s a plane flight that does not involve Shanghai. To review, it’s Saturday night, but rather than being home I am in “rural” Henan province - meaning a city of 1 million that I had not heard of until this afternoon - […]

I am in rural Chongqing, just a few kilometers from Guizhou, in one of the poorer areas of China. My day today went like this: A quick hike up a boardwalk into a deep valley with a stream running down the bottom (we are doing a national park plan), then sloshed back and forth in […]