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China is one of the most beautiful, unique, fun, friendly, and safe places to travel. Ann and I ate tasty food, saw brilliant sites, made friendships that we will forever cherish, and experienced each other in a completely new environment. I felt like our hearts grew and our love deepened. We both learned a lot [...]
One afternoon in Yangshuo, Joe and I decided it was time to rent a tandem bicycle. We had been looking at them for a week and joked about taking one out, but now it was time to try something new. And I am so glad we did! Now, these tandem bikes aren’t your average rentals. [...]
It worked out perfectly that Ann and I were in Texas this last week at the same time that my brother, wife, and kids were. We jumped at the opportunity to get a day with Ida, Ana, and Emmett. What a blast it was climbing around with them, exploring, and getting a little wet while [...]
One of our local Chinese friends told us that there are at least 20,000 karst mountains in Yangshuo. I saw that number again as I was aimlessly paging through a magazine one night at dinner. I assumed that it was an exaggeration until we spent a day exploring the countryside on bikes. The area of [...]
When we arrived in Guilin at the beginning of March our Chinese friend Stephanie, who works as an English tour guide, emphatically told Joe and I to visit the Longji rice terraces near Longsheng. She promised we wouldn’t regret it. From what I’d seen of the place in pictures her suggestions were definitely justified, but [...]
Last week Ann and I took a bamboo raft down the Yulong River. It was a spectacular, scenic, and relaxing time with just the two us and our guide slowly floating down the meandering river. It gave us some time to talk and shoot a few pictures. When we reached the bottom of the river we [...]
On Wednesday Joe and I had what was probably our favorite day in Yangshuo. We had a restful morning – slept in, showered and got ready for the day, answered a few emails, ate lunch at a local restaurant, and headed to West Street. A few days earlier we’d met two 18 year old guys [...]
It’s hard to believe that Guilin, China could ever feel so much like home. Our plane landed in Shanghai less than a week ago and I am already in love with this place. We have some favorite restaurants, a good handful of friends that we see everyday, and a hotel room that is beginning to [...]
Written on February 27: I’m up late tonight getting really excited about our trip to China. We leave in two days! We fly out of Philly to Chicago early morning on February 29th, then we catch a 15 hour flight to Shanghai. We will spend the night there and then fly from Shanghai to the [...]
Joe and I have been planning to take an extended adventure this spring for the last year. Almost every night we sit up in bed and read a chapter of one of our marriage books, chat about our day, and dream about where we’d like to go next. Until just a few weeks ago our [...]
One of my fondest early memories of Ann was on a backcountry climbing trip in Wyoming. That trip ignited our love story. We found ourselves laying out in our sleeping bags on thick mountain grass, counting shooting stars one evening. How fun it was to enjoy them together. Sometimes they would clear the entire sky. I [...]
I could feel my heart pounding inside my chest as we set up the rappel. Because the distance from summit to the notch that connected the spire to the wall was so far down we had to tie multiple ropes together for the descent. There were lots of stories of people dying on this route [...]
After our Christmas rendezvous in West Yellowstone, Joe and I continued on to Jackson, WY to spend a couple more days with his family. Joe’s brother Mike lived in Jackson many years ago, and so he knew of all the favorite local places to snowmobile. Mike suggested to Joe and I that we make a [...]
When most people hear Yellowstone they think of going to Wyoming to see geothermic features, buffalo, and bears. However, West Yellowstone is a town in Montana on the border of the national park that is famous for one thing: snowmobiling! It’s a town where they groom their roads instead of plow them. Elementary school students [...]
Things have sure been exciting since Joe and I left Texas. We spent the holiday making fresh tracks on snowmobiles and spending time with our families. Ironically, one of my favorite memories on the trip wasn’t snowmobiling or opening Joe’s presents, but skate skiing with my mom on the world-famous Rendezvous trail in West Yellowstone. [...]
