Chengde Magic

Nimen hao!

Again, I've been MIA...drats. I'm hoping I'll be more consistent at the posting thing when I get to Yali, 'cuz here in the Beijing...well, yeah...

Anywho, and a few friends ventured out of Beijing a few weekend ago (and two weekends ago (Dalian!)...and last weekend (hiking and camping on the Great Wall!...video forthcoming) We journeyed to Chengde, a city in Hebei Province. It was a sweet time, as documented below:



Note: we also spent a day exploring this incredible park: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/703. Highlights included hiking its mountains and wall, checking out decrepid Communist vacation homes, watching a Chinese calligraphist make his art, and listening to some pretty sweet music (and having learning do-re-mi on the erhu, a traditional Chinese string instrument). I'd say that it was fun times, and I know fun times.

I'm also planning on writing more thought-provoking and intellectually engaging posts in the near and distant future. I'm also planning on introducing another feature of the blog that I've been developing: Chris' Character Comics, or San(1) C. They are incredibly fun to create, and I hope y'all will enjoy them as a regular feature.

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-cy