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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...

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prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Get a whiff of...

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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 -...

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prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Beijing, 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...

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prrrrl on October 2, 2013 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Beijing, 2010 or Liaoning, 2013. They are appear to be mixed up!

Timing

Raining! They seeded the clouds too late. Usually they engineer a bright sunny day for Oct. 1. (By mid-afternoon it was beautiful out.)

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prrrrl on October 1, 2013 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Timing

Raining! They seeded the clouds too late. Usually they engineer a bright sunny day for Oct. 1. (By mid-afternoon it was beautiful out.)

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prrrrl on October 1, 2013 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Argh!

The tall building has three elevators but today only one is working. It's on the eighth floor. I wait for it to descend. The doors open and I see three people, one with a dolly of boxes, one just standing there and one on a full size motorcycle. I back up to let the motorcycle back out but when...

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prrrrl on October 1, 2013 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

My new job?

It's the national holiday so all offices are closed. Fortunately for me shops are open. I'm at one warehouse and only the owners are here. The phone rings and it's their customer in London. Poor Wu is confused - he does not speak English. He hands the phone to me. I act as translator conveying...

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prrrrl on October 1, 2013 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

Wow! Talk about living up to its name!

The first time I passed that corner I thought, 'Open sewer?' The second time I thought, 'Industrial spill?' The third time I paid attention to the recorded sales pitch blasted endlessly to passers-by: "Chou Dofu!" Stinky tofu! I'll pass!

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prrrrl on September 28, 2013 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

In no particular order... Today's events

Why do we take pictures? To remember an event? To document atrocities? To sustain awe of beauty? Why did the fluent English-speaking Chinese gentleman clandestinely take mine after helping me decipher which subway stop would bring me close to the wholesale tea market? Surely with his...

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prrrrl on September 25, 2013 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Liaoning, 2013

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