So when my family lived in Texas, and I had just gone off to collage, they visited Carlsbad Caverns.... without me. Now I have a thing...

With my time in China now at an end, I thought it would be good to look back and see what I've learned and realize what I would have done...

Going home is it's own adventure in a way. You're not the same person as you were when you left and you're viewing old things with new...

What I Learned Huangshan is as cold as... I don't know but it's freaking cold. Form the moment we stepped off the train to the moment we...

What I Learned Mosh hugs are my favorite. I don't know if kindergartners in America do them, but periodically my kids will just...kind...

What I Learned You can't trust you kids with chalk... or, you know, you can and you'll get this. The Buddhist temples may not be what you...

What I Learned Chinese names can have a lot of meaning. So if the Chinese people learn English, they get and English name that is easier...

What I Learned Seeing movies in China isn’t that different either. We went to see Justice League on half-price Tuesday. It was awesome,...

What I Learned Wuxi is pronounced Wu-she. In the simplified Chinese tha uses the Latin alphabet instead of Chinese characters the letter...

What I Learned The driving is crazy but the people are courteous. So watching people drive here is nuts. They straddle lanes, honk...

So I had four days off from teaching and some friends and I went south to the Guangxi Province. We spent our first full day in Guilin...

So my next four-day vacation was to Guilin and Yangshou. We did both places on the same trip so this week I'll tell you about the city of...

What I Learned Kids are accident prone no matter where you are. I nearly broke two of my kids while we were out on a field trip with...

What I Learned The garbage trucks are cute. You know how we have these huge monster trucks that eat our garbage and trundle along. The...

After China, I was looking forward to some downtime, coming back home and getting my life started, maybe putting off big travel for a...