YUHONG, China — One of my very good friends told me this spring that her son was going to marry a woman he met in China while learning Chinese in Beijing. They would be marrying in China on May 31, 2008, and celebrating with a [...]
Beijing, China: China has become a part of American everyday life but most of us do not know too much about China and their life and culture. It has been my opportunity to travel to China for the past ten years. Every trip I gain [...]
The world's biggest holiday begins on January 31 and ends on February 15. Anyone who has traveled to Asia during the Lunar New Year will be aware of this huge holiday. My first experience of it was when I was in Hawaii years ago. I [...]
BEIJING , China — The story that I have to share is one of the most incredible stories I have ever seen in my travels. In Beijing there is a place called the Temple of Heaven . It is an ancient temple that thousands of tourists [...]
I had a bike almost before I could push the pedal down. It was a tricycle, and how I loved riding up and down our driveway! At three, anything that moves is really exciting. In a small town one of the biggest benefits for the kids [...]
In 2007 I was asked to start leading tours to China. I had been there once in 1995, and I found the country to be on the move and extremely interesting. Never did I think my path would lead me back to directing tours and visiting [...]
I learned from a sightless eighty-two-year-old man on the top of the Great Wall of China that the biggest adventure in life is to follow our dreams! For the past seven years, I have been a tour director for people traveling to China. In a recent [...]
BEIJING, China — On my first trip to China, which was about ten years ago, I was told that the Chinese people eat everything that has legs except a table. Long ago, the people were so poor that they ate anything they could find that [...]
When Dick Jensen, director of Murdock Escorted Tours ask me to go to China for a month to be the escort of three groups coming from the United States, I had no idea I would be traveling with a group of young kids performing for [...]
SOMEWHERE IN HONG KONG— I dropped into Dick Jensen's office (Director of Murdock Escorted Tours) one day, and he asked me if I would like to go to China for a month. Before I could think about it, yes was out of my mouth. I [...]
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