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Back at it after a break

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Sorry to all the regular readers for the radio silence.   A lot has been going on recently, but nothing that is really blog worthy.   Just life transition stuff and the start of a new school year.   It’s been hard to find time to break away and get to this as well.   I’ve been on Dada duty with J going back to her classroom and work two weeks prior to Kiddo.   Plus, I’m getting a holiday in a few weeks to get to BKK and then Saigon and catch up with BSchmittah.   I’m excited for that and can’t wait to show him around a city we called home for three years and then take him to a place I love so much I got a tattoo of it on me.   Saigon is, I’ve said before, my spiritual home and I’ve gotten to share that with Kiddo and J, but to share it with a guy that is my best friend and more akin to a brother than a friend… There’s some excitement there.   Also, though, a ton of planning and making sure B is good with travel times and all we are doing. The bigg...
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Not so Great trip that was a ton of fun

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Again we fly through the countryside at 350km per hour and it was a great trip.   It was a lot more unexpected than we thought it would be.   Firstly, Beijing is a nice city.   Very different than Shanghai, but very familiar at the same time.   It’s older, you could feel some of the ancient spirit in the city.   It’s the capital, so it’s a little bit more formal, but in a hard way to explain if you’ve never been; a lot more military presence, for starters, but it’s not like we don’t have the same in Shanghai, with police or military presence.   It’s just more formal.   The government buildings you always see the guards and staff, but in Beijing, the dress was a bit more crisp, the men standing attention stood at attention .   It’s also less of a Western presence in Beijing, so we got a lot more looks.   Our first night, once we got checked in, we headed out to try to find food and J had something marked near us and it was a 10 minute walk. ...
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