Couchsurfing Beijing
To follow the myriad tourists who pack shoulder to shoulder into cliched cultural spots taking the same horrible digital photographs of the early morning elderly Tai Chi Chuan practitioners and the ubiquitous liveried soldiers would be, to my mind, to miss the real city. Today is no day for sightseeing, rather starting the ball rolling on more than merely watching and regurgitating what the world already knows the Chinese do everyday, moreover to take part in their interior lives.
Reimagining Shanghai
Manny asks some hard hitting questions on this his second stop on the Round the World Trip™ in the patchwork city of Shanghai and its chaotic culture of consumption: Am I going gray? Can Haibao save us all? Find out…
Hitchhiking Japan – Life on the High Seas
Day Two: It’s like watching the ocean at night. Darkness pervades, but the sense of something massive and much greater than you happening just beyond the immense sands is overwhelming. Staring out into it your eyes adjust to the black and you begin to see the dancing forms of millions of years. It is then [...]
Hitchhiking Japan – The Beginning
Setting out on a trip, everyone has high hopes for what will come, but plans change and when reality sets in, what will you do?