Be careful what you wish for... I said I wanted to see what it would be like to be in a place where no one really spoke English, and guess what? It's pretty hard. I'm in Hangzhou, China, which is really only a bit off "the beaten path" but much more difficult to navigate than Xi'an. I spent nearly the whole day trying to book onward tickets from here. My plan as of this minute is to take the train to Shanghai tomorrow and then hopefully get a train to Hong Kong on Monday. Hong Kong wasn't a scheduled stop on this journey, but I decided to add it in as well as a side trip to Cebu, Philippines. I've found so far that some of the places that I hadn't planned on visiting have been some of my favorites, and I hope this trend continues.
I am not able to log onto the blog itself from China (not sure why that is?) but I think the last post I put up has disappeared. The gist of it was that I was leaving Xi'an and still traveling with Dave, one of the British guys from the train trip. We will go our separate ways from Shanghai, but it has definitely been nice to have someone to help gesture and point these past few days. :) I have also put a sampling of photos up on flickr from Mongolia and China. There are lots more that I'll put up later and the quality of the ones I uploaded isn't great, but should give you some idea of what I'm seeing and doing.
I am having a great time and so looking forward to what's next. More soon...
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I was glad to see your most recent post. I start to worry if it has been more than a couple of days and was so relieved when there was something new this evening. I know I shouldn't worry, but I can't help it! I have to say that I love that there are so many pictures with you in them! It is great to see you in all these different areas of the world. I am still amazed at what you have already seen and that there is still so much left to see. I do really like the Heffalump picture(one of my favorite picture comments so far). I can't wait to see more when you get to a better place to upload them all.
Take Care & Love Ya!
Amie
Josie, the adventure goes on!!! I was out of touch for about a week while in Chicago (wow, a lovely city) not the same technology challenges as you've had in China, only time challenge with conference work etc! I did meet a woman in Chicago (she is involved with our Seattle Lighthouse board) and she recently did the pilgrimage walk across northern Spain....she loved it. Being that she is older than me, it was so nice to hear her experiences with it. She did it solo and said it's the most amazing thing she's ever done. Of course, in the conversation we talked alot about you and your trip too and it made you seem even closer. I had started the conversation with "My daughter told me about that walk in Spain!" I love you Josie!!!!!!! Mom
Dear Josie:
I wanted to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving wherever you willl be. I am happy and thankful that you are my niece and that you are such a visionary!
I'll write next week so I may wish you a H.B.
Hope you feel my energy coming your way each day!
Love you,
Trish
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