Behind The Blog
As our three months in Asia nears a close, it seems it’s about time for another behind the scenes peek at life on the road. 49 blogs and 6 countries later, the second leg of our trip is about in … Read More
As our three months in Asia nears a close, it seems it’s about time for another behind the scenes peek at life on the road. 49 blogs and 6 countries later, the second leg of our trip is about in … Read More
One of the things I had on my list for this trip was to take the Trans-Siberian Railway, the longest rail journey in the world. Begun in 1890, the rail line was designed to serve cities throughout Siberia that were … Read More
WHAT WE DID: Spent one week in Beijing (at a guesthouse off Wangfujing Road, ~3km from The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square). WHAT WE LIKED: Beijing’s metro was quite good – cheap, clean, easy to navigate, and the trains … Read More
The penny enthusiastically traversed 12 miles of China’s Great Wall:
Naturally, while in China, we had to see the Great Wall. In an effort to escape the crowds, we signed up for two days of hiking with an organization called Beijing Hikers, whose trips tend to move outside of the … Read More