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 […]
China 2007 – Part 5
The next flight in China took us to Xian, at the very center of the country and the oldest city in China — and with 3,100 years of history. A small city — 8 million people — with the most amazing statistic that the city is adding 9,000 new automobiles per month. The traffic is […]
China 2007 – Part 3
The flight to Yichang brought us to within two hours of the Three Gorges Dam. After a drive by the dam we reached Maoping where we boarded the ship that would be our home for the next four nights. On the first morning we toured the dam and then started the cruise in the afternoon […]