our time in China
April 7, 2024 John and I visited The Great Wall in fall of 2019, with colorful leaves changing, giving a lovely contrast to the grey and brown stones. We did not relish the thought of spending 6+ hours on a bus from Tianjin, but seeing the wall in spring would …
Day 25; Nov. 11th: Three Gorges dam: We awoke in Xiling Gorge the site of the Shibao Pagoda (the Shibaozhai temple). Originally, the temple was built at the top of the cliff, and any monks or worshippers needed to climb the cliff to go there. Then, some senior monk decided …
Nov. 7-10, 2019 Delayed posting again due to technical problems – first the photos did not appear to load from my laptop to the blog; the tech’s suggestion was to get the app so I wouldn’t have to do move the pics from the phone but loaded directly – great, …
October 29th-Nov. 2nd, 2019 Day 12/13 October 29th/ 30th: In typical California style, from Bakersfield we took the 99 to the 405 (got to use the HOV lane, so not too bad) to the 110 and got to Harbor City in decent time. We met our friend Anthony who was …