Travel experiences, memories and stories about exploring this great planet of ours

I saw this today on The Further Adventures Of No-Sense-Of-Direction Girl and Don’t-Plan-Ahead Boy If you are driving on the New York Thruway, and you happen to miss the exit for 84 (the uneducated might think this is the fault of the girlfriend/navigator but all of the signs were CLEARLY stolen by gnomes in the [...]

I saw this today on the Stickley Museum blog and thought some of you might like to enter, or at least have a look at the entered travel photos. I’ve seen some amazing Craftsman Farm photos in our Flickr group! If you have a great picture of The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, why not [...]

A recent trip to the NY Renn Faire! On Saturday, Germaine invited me to go to the NY Renn Faire. Germaine is Bethie’s friend from high school, but being sisters means I get to steal her clothes and her friends. Score! I was really excited to go, since it’s been a few years since my [...]

Traveling to New Jersey? Ok, no one travels to New Jersey. Stuck in New Jersey and looking for something new to do? Next month is MUSEUM DAY which means free admission to local attractions, like the Stickley Museum. Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms is participating in Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day on September 27, 2008. Museum [...]

Kaiser Kuo has written a brilliant Guide for Visiting Journalists, to avoid the awkward Bylines-At-Customs type of writing so scathingly described by Huo Lei Feng, and to avoid the shallow cliches that make us cringe. Here’s an excerpt: Topping the list of forbidden clichés is the phrase “coming out party.” As apt as it may [...]

The WSJ’s China blog has some recent items of note: –Great Wall adventures. Trips to various parts of the wall, with an emphasis on those accessible from the author’s home in Tangshan, Hebei province. [Great Wall Blog] –Street art is pretty rare in China, which makes this collection of Shanghai graffiti photos something of a [...]

Why travel in China is like being the protagonist in a fantasy novel… Not a comparison that leaps to mind, but here are some convincing arguments! I’ve noticed a certain similarity between my reading matter and my life. Some of the reasons overlap with Sinoplice’s brilliant “Why China Is Like An RPG”. Travel in China, [...]

The refusal of taxi drivers to take foreign passengers is seen more and more as a poitical reaction, but Simpson’s Paradox talks about all the other reasons a driver won’t accept her. Often I hop into a Beijing taxi, only to get out again when the driver refuses to take me where I want to [...]

Looks like the end for Simpson’s Paradox. New visa regulations for foreigners in China are throwing many expats out of the country they call home. Stick’s new visa fell through at the last possible second. It was a dramatic disaster, but the short version is that apparently the school wasn’t quite as professional and aboveboard [...]