11/6/98: A wild goose chase for scanning services today. Need to get some photos and images scanned for the brochures… Alas, graphic design challenges while travelling… We also looked at prices for…
Night Market Delicacies
11/5/98: Ruth went off to get train tickets while I stayed in to get more work done… Late in the afternoon headed back downtown and wandered around the Night Market for delicious…
Specks of Light Floating Away
11/4/98: I showed Peter the design layouts, and he liked them, so we are moving ahead… Dinner out with Peter and his family at the Night Market, a sort of outdoor food…
More Light
11/3/98: Today I reviewed and edited the copy/text that Peter had started, and sketched some layout ideas for the brochures… Also discussed shooting some photography for use in the brochures… We ate…
The Beginning Of Festivities
11/2/98: Met with Peter in the office today to discuss the kinds of brochures that he wants me to design… I spent the rest of the day researching and brainstorming… In the…
Getting Around Town
11/1/98: Did some more exploration downtown today, and figured out that the cheapest way to getting around town are the songthaews: red pick-up trucks with benches in the back… We joined the…
Colloquialisms From Down Under
10/31/98: The train arrived late by almost two hours, but Peter G. was still waiting for us. He first took us to his home and we got to meet his wif, Susan,…
More Overnight Train Travel
10/30/98: We rose early went directly to the train station and obtained tickets northward on our own without a problem… So much for tourist ticketing agents… When Ruth was here four years…
Bumped Up
10/29/98: Another departure date has arrived… We had a final breakfast meal with Carl and Karen, during which we asked and heard about how they met… These two are a great blessing……
Broken Camera
10/28/98: Sadly, I dropped the video camera. Not only can we not continue with the interviews, but we’ll have to pay for a new camera… I cobbled together the video clips and…
A Bit Of Chicago in Hong Kong
10/27/98: Spent more time doing video interviews with Carl & Karen, this time, up on the roof of their high-rise apartment building with the rest of Hong Kong in the background… We…
Walking In Hong Kong
10/26/98: The typhoon has changed course, and the weather here in HK is turning sunny today. I’m glad we’re not going to have to add that to our list of experiences… We…
Typhoon Warning
10/25/98: I stayed in bed with a bad cold, but Ruth video-taped Carl preaching at church this morning… Our assignment here is to help them prepare a media presentation of their 30…
Infectious Cheerfulness
10/24/98: Carl is a joyful ball of energy, in spite of the fact that he is sporting a nasty looking jig of steel rods and screws and rings that protrudes from and…
Walking Across The Border
10/23/98: Wish we could have seen more, stayed longer… We walked across the border into Shenzen Station in the New Territories of Hong Kong… After a short ride on the KCR rapid…
The Banana Pancake Trail
10/22/98: Travel day, heading back to Hong Kong… Traveling through mainland China was challenging, but not as much as we expected… Tourism is ramping up rapidly in China, and I heard one…
More On The Li River
10/21/98: Pretty low-key day today. We hung around town and did some more people watching… NOTE: The photo above shows a river taxi on the Li River in Yangshuo, China.
A Day In The River Life
10/20/98: Today we took a boat tour on the Li River up to the village of Yangti… On board we met Ken and Rochelle who are from Hawaii… They are also dog…
Chinese Arts And Crafts
10/19/98: Ruth went into Guilin on her own to buy our onward tickets. I stayed in so that I could catch up on writing… Later on, we walked around the village here…
Capitalism On The Rise
10/18/98: We went down to the river to watch the boats and the people… I asked one villager if she would take us out on her long bamboo raft, but one of…
Surprise
10/17/98: We wandered around this tiny riverside town a little bit today. A different pace and way of living for sure… Ruth sneaked off and managed to find a bakery, and then…
I Love A Parade
10/16/98: Slept surprisingly well in the “hard sleeper” compartment on the train last night… Bunk beds were stacked three high, six beds to each compartment, with 10 or 12 of such compartments…
Blessed Are The Flexible
10/15/98: Up early to make it to the train station, but a grumpy sales agent who seemed determined to make our day as bad as hers and our trip onward impossible meant…
Peace Corps
10/14/98: We sat in on one of Travis’ classes this morning… The students enthusiastically greeted us in unison with a hearty “Hello!”… The Peace Corps is a pretty cool organization and provides…
Dumplings and Shave Ice
10/13/98: Arrived safely in Panzhihua and met up with my friend Travis. He is teaching English at a university here with the Peace Corps… Hilarity ensued when we got to the campus…