The Mighty Dragon’s Head: Day 3 Beidaihe to Beijing Beidaihe 10:30 am – Rising a bit later than originally planned we headed out to grab some breakfast on the only restaurant street we could find. After almost eating at 6 spots, we eventually came to agreement on a pancake and porridge place on the side … Continue reading Day 3 – Beidaihe to Beijing
The Mighty Dragon’s Head: Day 2 Whack-a-Mole where the Great Wall meets the Pacific. Shanhaiguan 9:30 am – We met up to grab some breakfast and picked none other than “Popland” once again. The breakfast tasted almost as bad as the garbage dog looked. We headed to the “First Pass Under Heaven” (天下第一门) which was … Continue reading Day 2 – Shanhaiguan to Beidaihe
The Mighty Dragon’s Head: Day 1 Planning and Day 1 of the trip! The Mighty Dragon’s Head Tomb-sweeping day is a national holiday for families to get together and visit the graves of their loved ones. It is called Tomb sweeping because traditional families would tend to the tombstones, which included sweeping, cleaning, and bringing … Continue reading Day 1 Beijing to Shanhaiguan
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The big 30 is quite a significant number. For our generation, it’s definitely more important than 18 or 21. 30 signifies the end of the twenties, but as our current age group deals with “the pre-adulthood stage”, at what age are you actually “old” or “mature”. I guess I could google it and get a … Continue reading Thoughts of what’s to come
Day 8 Continued. Houston, USA. We made it to Houston! Freedom! I noticed that we were delayed so I asked the flight attendant what the process was for catching our connection. The flight attendant said not to worry because there was a 9 pm flight in case we missed the 7 pm. So that was … Continue reading Day 8 and 9 Continued – Awful Experience with Continental-United
Antigua, Guatemala Since it was still pitch black out when we woke up, we barely made it. Our alarms were blasting though so we hustled and got ready. The front desk guy was sleeping on the couch and seemed surprised that we were awake on time. He told us the guy wasn’t here yet. So … Continue reading Day 8: Guatemala Antigua, Pacaya, Guatemala City
Ocotepeque, Honduras After a quick shower, we checked out and were back on the road. We hopped into the first cab we saw and got to the border. We were there by 8 am. The Honduran border was simple to cross. Stamp and go. The El Salvador border was much more diligent. They had a … Continue reading Day 7: Honduras to El Salvador to Guatemala
Alarm buzzing again… so disoriented. I showered then woke up Bill. I went out to see the pool that the hotel advertised, which was quite inviting. Too bad we didn’t have time for a swim. We checked out and walked to the bus station a few blocks away. It was a different station for buses … Continue reading Day 6: Guatemala, Chiquimula to Honduras, Ocotepeque
Both our alarms were going off when I finally woke up. It was 6:45 am, so tired. We left our bags at the hotel and waited for our ride. The bus was late and the first one that showed was our tour company, but it wasn’t our bus! Eventually we got on our bus to … Continue reading Day 5: Guatemala – Tikal