This post was written together with Danielle and also appears on The Roaming Coconuts. Well not quite, but we want to see how many times we can use the same Tupac reference on our blog. We first made a brief stop in Bijie to visit Silvia's college ...
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Hitchhiking in China
Leaving Central Asia, we knew we were in for a bit of sticker shock. Food and accommodation in China can be quite cheap, but transportation? $40 for twelve hours on a smoke-filled bus. Not ideal. So when Will, our new Chinese backpacker friend, mentioned that he was ...
(Wild) Western China
This post was written together with Danielle and also appears on The Roaming Coconuts. I have strangely few memories from my early childhood (sorry Mom and Dad). One of my most prominent is from a family vacation to the Bahamas when I was in first grade. One ...
Eating Our Way Through Kashgar
When we arrived (for the third time!) in Sary-Tash, we were informed that we were lucky—the following day was the last before the border to China closed for ten days. Now, Sary-Tash is great for a day, maybe even two, but ten? I would go crazy. Plus I’m not sure if I could ...
Uzbekistan, Maybe We Don’t Hate You
So I know you all must have been waiting on tenterhooks to hear if Samarkand redeemed Uzbekistan for us a little bit (of course you were). Actually, it kind of did! The sites in Samarkand are much more spread out, so we saw a few faces that didn't belong to Western tourists. ...