Author Archives: nancysvenson

[Still scrambling to finish this blog before we leave.  This is from a month ago…] In a city of more than 20 million, it’s unlikely to run into someone you know from home, but on the Sunday morning after we … Continue reading →

As I write this, we’re lying low at an eco resort in southern China having undoubtedly one of our very best experiences of the last five months.  When we arrived here on Sunday (Father’s Day) we spent a couple of … Continue reading →

Several people have asked about this, so here’s the skinny on the girls’ hometowns… When we began planning for this “trip” one of the first things we considered was hometown visits for the girls.  They were both born in cities … Continue reading →

We have 14 days left in China and not enough hours in those combined days to cover all that we want and need to do.  The blog is one of those things.  I’ve tried to keep it up to date, … Continue reading →

Major milestone today: the girls finished their last day at BISS.  I’m so proud of them for taking on this whole experience.  Heading to a new school in a foreign country was unnerving for us in February… especially so for … Continue reading →

… thinking that the blog reads a little like a pollyanna account of five months of easy, blissful travel through China and a sweet life in Beijing.  Hmmm.  It has been a lot of that. And it’s in my nature … Continue reading →

Last weekend we went to Tianjin for two nights of sleeping in real beds.  Wonderful. No one needs to go to Tianjin.  It’s not a famous Chinese city per se, and you might say that leaving Beijing to go to … Continue reading →

[note: internet connectivity has been sporadic and mostly out for the last three days; I am getting this post up at 9:00pm on a Friday night because the internet is finally completely back up AND because three facilities management guys … Continue reading →

So… we arrived back in Beijing from Hong Kong on Sunday, May 1… hit the ground running… and haven’t stopped since.  On the 2nd (a Chinese holiday similar to Labor Day) Art was admitted to the international hospital while the … Continue reading →

(previously noted in a post that was accidentally deleted… so here it is again) When I started this blog, I guessed that we’d cover about 20,000 miles.  A fair guess.  So far, we’re at: LA to Beijing: 6,250     … Continue reading →