A (fake) Olympic achievement

Some friends invited us over for dinner last night to welcome us back to Xiangfan. Jenny’s best friend, Tian Jingsong (and her husband, Liu Jian) hosted the dinner party at their new home. Aware that one of my favorite local dishes is longxia (crawfish), Laodi and his wife (Tian Jinsong’s older sister, Dimei) had worked [...]

Shanghaied to Xiangfan

Puttering around on the train, killing time…here’s a little slice of the countryside between Wuhan and Xiangfan…

It’s hard to capture much of interest, or much in the way of good video, on a train whizzing along at around 120kph. This is mostly a test, only a test, of embedding video in [...]