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Eight by Nine

I'm a happy clam! Or should I say mussel since it is their product I'm here to buy. The hostel up-graded me to a two person dorm from a six person dorm - big improvement! And better yet, the other bed is empty giving me a private room. For the time being. There have been nights where I woke up...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 3, 2013 from Beijing, China
from the travel blog: Beijing, 2010 or Liaoning, 2013. They are appear to be mixed up!

Salt air!

We had traveled by bus, train, subway, several types of motorized pedicabs, taxi, bench seat bike, foot and now ferry. It was a slow ride to the island that was faded in polluted-view but not far off shore. I mistakenly purchased the all inclusive ticket which would take us by bus around the...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 3, 2013 from Xingcheng, China
from the travel blog: Beijing, 2010 or Liaoning, 2013. They are appear to be mixed up!

Santa National Day?

"Did you have a good National Day?" I asked smelly, Brit-sounding gentleman who had not left (for more than a day, anyway). The memorable answer did not come from him but from the desk clerk eavesdropping. He said, "Not really." "Of, course! You had to work!" I assumed out loud. "No, since...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Beijing, China
from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Get a whiff of...

Lights back on! Yea!! Men and smokers don't think their jackets need washing. They are everyone-else-is-plugging-their-noses wrong. I once sat behind a young man at the ballet in Raleigh Fanning my face constantly to dispel his outerwear's rankness. At the hostel I'm currently at, I...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Beijing, China
from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Get a whiff of...

Lights back on! Yea!! Men and smokers don't think their jackets need washing. They are everyone-else-is-plugging-their-noses wrong. I once sat behind a young man at the ballet in Raleigh Fanning my face constantly to dispel his outerwear's rankness. At the hostel I'm currently at, I...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Beijing, China
from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Darkness

Today is their National Day, their 'Fourth of July'. Yet I got lots of work done visiting 3 vendors and picking up longer pants from the tailor. But I just returned to the hostel and there is no electricity to my room. This leaves all six residents in the dark. And it's their National Day -...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Beijing, China
from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Fossils!

We made it! After first heading to the bus station to buy tickets out of town (next day, as the last bus would not allow sufficient time to see the fossil museum necessitating an over-night in a city we were told we could not over-night) we hired a pedicab (no longer an applicable name as they...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Chaoyang, China
from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Dig it!

Fossil blog The Bird Flower-rock (fossil) National Geological Park is 60% kitsch, 30% awesome. They have the actual pit where some of the first fossils were found. They have a long, deep trench showing the sediment layers. This is not open air but in a modern building resembling an...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Chaoyang, China
from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Hot Lap of Luxury

Guilded lions outside, huge elaborate lobby modeled after French aristocracies of the 17/18th centuries, shiny everything! And only 499 ren min bi per night ($80). The room had the usual western amenities of soap, shampoo, conditioner and lotion (but in an embossed leather box), a blow...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Chaoyang, China
from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Breakfast Bonanza!

It's so popular I can't get any service. It's a breakfast restaurant with indoor seating, hard to find, and it serves many more breakfast options than most. Usually a breakfast place offers only a few things. This places serves fried sticks (a fave of my kids but an unsweetened greasy donut does...

permalink written by  prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Beijing, China
from the travel blog: Beijing, 2010 or Liaoning, 2013. They are appear to be mixed up!

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