This is a panoramic shot I took with my new camera--which impresses me more and more each time I use it. Video with sound and simply breathtaking images like this one... I hope it turns out well. I will be posting more pictures in the coming days...  Read more!

Looking for a foreigner in Beijing?
Try the Starbucks in the forbidden city....
I would say it made me sick that Starbucks had a shop there, but I enjoyed my triple latte. Hey, at least its not a McDonalds...!  Read more!

Beijing 2006  Read more!

The trip to one of the five most famous mountains in China--Wan Shen mountain in Hunan....
Great story about this little getaway that I will share with you all later...  Read more!

One of my poses that I have people do from time to time-- pointing at nothing and making it seem like a spectacle.
This is a grand champion prize winner.
These are all of my students in all of their glory.  Read more!

This is the after effect...  Read more!

HOTPOT
probably the worst meal we ate while they were here in China. Billy pretty much hated me for the rest of the trip after eating a sichuan pepper in the hotpot, which I wasnt paying close attention to him eating...
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One Night in Duckhead....

Oh Billy.
One of the most memorable pictures of the trip. Billy was a champ with the food--but he paid the price a few times with the China belly.
This is him moments before he devoured the duckhead. Yes, that is a duckhead and he attempted to eat it, but couldn't crack the skull to eat the brains--the Chinese with us were slightly mocking him for not accomplishing a simple task.
We ate Dog later in this meal.  Read more!

Okay, Billy and Virgia have left my part of the country and should be in Hong Kong by now-- I hope they are in Hong Kong, at least.
I am tired from all of our journey, but its time to load some of the highlights of the trip, for both of you that read my blog!!!

This is Betty, one of the many women in Chenzhou that I love and adore. She has a rather rough looking boyfriend from Changsha so we try to keep our attraction to a minium, but she bought me the cutest birthday present, three months later.....
She is purely adorable.  Read more!

Another milestone in my life...
On top of the great wall of China, hours after a blazing snowstorm.... What a great moment.  Read more!

Walking along the great wall....

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One of the main Buddhas in the Lama temple--even though you arent supposed to take pics!!  Read more!

Lovely Lily and her friend Anna posing with our entourage of kids in the Lama temple, Beijing.  Read more!

Two female tibetian monks inside the Lama temple area, Beijing.  Read more!

Some things have happened recently which have allowed me to freely introduce someone I have been seeing over the last period of time I have been in China. This is Lily from Germany--she is 26 and lives north of where I am.  Read more!

Once you arrive in Xian, the warriors are everywhere--such as this one adventerous warrior advertising a local Hotel. I have to tell you I appreciate these much more than the totes that plaugue the tourist areas...  Read more!

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