Riding a bike on the streets of Beijing is exhilarating, exciting and only a little bit dangerous. You see, not too long ago, these streets were owned by Bicycles. When I was here only eight years ago, bicycles were much more common than cars. I remember getting stuck in ‘bike jams’ not [...]

The Duze Nest

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Riding in a Taxi is alway an adventure in Beijing. It’s not the crazy driving that makes me nervous, it’s the fact that I never really know if the driver knows here he is taking me. This is how it works, I get my destination written in Chinese [...]

The Great Dork!

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I found out today that the ‘Great Wall’ is only called ‘Great’ in English. In Chinese it’s just the ‘Long Wall.’ To me though, it’s the ‘Tourist Trap Wall.’ I couldn’t believe how many people were visiting this place, and they were all Chinese too. I [...]

Great Wall at Badaling

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Last night I went to my first event, USA Basketball vs. Greece. I totally lucked out with the tickets. I happened to be on Facebook and my old friend Leon popped up on the chat, “Hey, you’re in Beijing?” He mentioned that he had tickets and I [...]

I got home today at 1am after an amazing USA-Greece basketball game–Yes, I actually went to an event today, or yesterday, whatever time it is. It’s 3:30am now, I slept a solid two hours and we’re off on another adventure. First to watch the flag raise at Tienanmen Square and then off to [...]