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Day 2 – Lake Alpine Fun

June 18 – Dorrington, CA Another lovely morning in Arnold and around one-ish we finally managed to pull ourselves out of the president play area that is in the cabin.

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Day 3 – To Yosemite

June 19 – Dorrington, CA It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s time to head to Yosemite! Our plan was to leave around 3 PM to get to our campground around

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Day 4 – Half Dome Day Trip

June 20 – Crane Flat, Yosemite The 6AM alarm came and by 6:15 everyone was in the car and heading towards Yosemite. We got to the valley around 6:45 after

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Mall Mania – KidZania

July 18 – kidZania.  Two days earlier, Tak had told us about a place called KidZania a place inside of one Siam Paragon, the largest mall in Asia. It is

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What Wat is Which?

July 17 – Bangkok tourists  Our wonderful driver arrived at 9:30 to escort us the Grand Palace and the Wats (temples) nearby. Tom and Tyler woke around 8am and walked

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3 Nights in Bangkok and the World’s Your Oyster

June 16 – travel day! How hard could it be? By now we had our travel days down pat. Pack, load into crazy open air taxi, wait for ferry, etc.

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Sailing Through the Certification at Sail Rock

July 15 – dive certification day By now we knew the drill, so we got up right at 7am and got some pancakes and eggs to go for the breakfast,

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Going to School to see Schools of Fish

July 14 – classroom day and island exploration  After a quick breakfast including American style pancakes and eggs at our new hotel, the kids walked up the road to begin

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Just a Couple of Pirate Divers

July 13 – under the sea We don’t set many alarms when traveling but today was an exception. Our drive shop suggested we arrive at 7:00am for a 7:15 departure,

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From One Koh to Another

July 12 – just another travel day We have long contended that a travel day is a travel day regardless of how long the trip is. If you take a

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Full Moon Part-B

July 11 – full moon part-b As the thunderstorms raged last night, we wondered how that was going over at the rave 50km away on Koh Phangan. Then we realized

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Full Moon Part-A

July 10 – full moon ‘party’ It was the full moon and just a 30 minute ferry ride away in Koh Phangan, hipsters from around the globe were getting ready

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Day One in Ko Samui

July 9 – sunshine makes everything better We awoke rested and happy in our new home, Lamai beach. Our lovely hotel is right on the beach and we have a

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China to Thailand via Air

July 8 – the long travel day Around 7:15am, Tom got up to explore the old town before the shops opened to get a feel for the city before it

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Tiger Raining Gorge

July 7 – the weather we were expecting Tom and the kids were up at 8:30am and enjoyed the view from the balcony in front of our simple rooms. Little

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Kramer Leaping Gorge

July 6 – tiger leaping gorge When we arranged this trip, we wanted to do some trekking in Tibet, but the timing didn’t work out. The alternative plan was to

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Happy Birthday Sue (or Hsu as auto-correct likes to say)

July 5 – One long day It is Sue’s birthday today so she got to sleep as late as she wants. Well, almost, as we woke her at 9:45 so

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Fireworks in Xizhou

July 4 – fireworks in xizhou Happy anniversary to us (18th) and happy birthday America (241th)! After breakfast, we joined 8 guests on the 9:30 market tour; 4 from Toronto,

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Rice Fields, Ice Cream and Muddy Rides

July 3 – a quiet day in Xizhou It is not often that our accommodation is the highlight of our visit to a destination, but The Linden Centre is no

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Second to last stop in China

July 2 – Tengchong to Dali It seems like forever ago that we left Palo Alto. Since then we’ve connected with Tibetian monks, gazed at the base of Everest, explored

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Touring Tengchong with our new friends 

July 1 – being tourists in Tengchong  Today was a later start as we were to meet at 8:30 in the lobby, but exhausted no one made it down before

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Shoulder Action In Action

June 30 – Why we came.  Today we build libraries. Or more accurately, we “build” “libraries.” We left the hotel at 7:30 for our 90 minute drive along a windy,

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The Saga Continues

June 29 – Kunming to Tengchong The hotel phone rang at 4:50am! In polite English, they told us we had to check out by 5:20. In a daze, we rolled

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Chengdu to Tengchong (via Lijiang and Kunming!)

June 28 – CTU to TCZ Our last day in Sichuan province started by getting up by 9am and having breakfast with the others! After June and Lee gave Tyler

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A little Chengdu for you

June 27 – day in Chengdu  The past few days had worn us out and except for the Tyler, we all slept until almost 10am. Sue and Tyler had made

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Kramer-style Panda Express

June 26 – Pandas! This morning we were sad to leave our amazing breakfast and our wonderful friends in Dujiangyan. However, we were excited to see our Chengdu friends and

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Water, water everywhere

June 25 – Dujiangyan Irrigation Project Today was designated a late start day (10:30am). The kids, determined to make the most of the hotel, got up at 8am to use

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Do-ing Dujiangyan 

June 24 – Dujiangyan, China We don’t often splurge on a 5-star hotel when we are traveling, but in this case we knew that Tibet would be challenging and that

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Goodbye Tibet

June 23 – Goodbye Tibet, Hello China Earlier in our trip, as the daily travel times became more apparent, we discovered it was possible to fly from Shigatse to Chengdu.

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Nearing the end

June 22 – Lhtase to Shigatse On the day before we had driven from EBC to Lhatse (about 6-7 hours) so today we had a relatively short drive to Shigatse

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