Back From Africa
The trip back from Africa took twenty-nine hours. If you include the half day in Cape Town’s wine country before going to the airport plus an evening event back home, the forty-five hours made for a really long "day". We left the hotel in Cape Town at 9am on Friday morning — it was 2am […]
Upstate New York
More about the iPhone and WiFi soon but first a final travelogue for the summer. The total Trike ride was 550 miles. The first day got us up close to Utica where my brother lives. Utica is situated in the Mohawk Valley and is the county seat of Oneida County. Like many industrial towns and […]
Mystic Creatures
Nothing could be better than going to the American Museum of Natural History with your granddaughter. There are always special exhibits — today we saw Mythic Creatures, Frogs, and Dinosaurs Alive!. Frogs was really interesting. I was not aware that there are more than 5,000 different kinds of them. The museum had a large collection […]
China 2007 – The Wall
Thanks to Theron Rogers in Georgia for pointing out a "minor* error in my last posting. The Great Wall is 3,720 *miles* long, not 3,720 feet. Actually, nobody is sure exactly how long the remaining part of the wall is. As far as you can see from Balaling for sure. While some portions north of Beijing […]
China 2007 – Part 6
Our final flight inside China was from Xian to Beijing, a city of 14 million, the third largest in the country. The bus trip from Beijing to Badaling is a link to China’s past and , of course, no trip to China would be complete without a visit to The Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, and […]
