The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I have spent the last three weeks in CHINA. We headed east to the hot, smoggy, busy crowded streets of Beijing, Shanghai and Xi’an. Here are a few visuals from my little China adventure…
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| May 20 | View from Beijing International Hotel, our home for the next week. The clock tower was our marker for walking around the city. |
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| May 23, 2014 | Panjiayuan Flea Market |
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| Panjiayuan Flea Market | Where every imaginable curio, artifact and fake Tang Dynasty knock-off is on sale. |
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| Mizzou China Study Abroad business students enjoy dinner at the Dumplings House. I miss this crazy crew! |
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| May 21, 2014 | Entering 798 Art Zone — a plethora of street art, art galleries, museums, and coffee houses |
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| Everywhere you turn, cool vivid sculptures… |
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| The giant deer boy stood over 25 feet tall. I was obsessed. And then the giant GUM… |
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| Butterfly lion on the roof |
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| Sandy and I spent two hours wandering through the district. You could spend hours here — there was so much COOL to see. |
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| Wangfujing street market — home of tasty starfish, seahorse, scorpions, lizards {though I didn’t sample ANY of these delicacies} |
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| These drinks are SMOKIN’ |
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| Giant china dolls stand guard in front of Wangfujing |
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| LIVE delicacies: scorpions and seahorses |
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| May 23 | The Bird’s Nest at Olympic Park |
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| We saw a group practicing synchronized skating for the big Dragonfest event. |
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| The Bird’s Nest 2014 |
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