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Power Adapters & Voltage Converters Abroad

Ask any representative in any electronics store about powering devices abroad and they will most likely tell you to buy a voltage converter.  Voltage converters are expensive, clunky devices that you can plug in a foreign wall socket to chop higher voltages down to the US standard 110 volts, avoiding frying your electronics.  [...]

Vacation Extend Succeed?

Hotel life may seem like a sweet deal at first.  Every day somebody makes your bed, refreshes your towels, and whisks away your poo rags.  The shampoo comes in cute little bottles and the bed is right next to the TV.  But after three weeks of touring China I have only this to [...]

Hello China

You may find this hard to believe, I kind of do myself, but I’m in China now.  Actually I’m twelve days into my stay and already I’ve seen Changzhou, Beijing, Xian, and Jiuzhaigou.  There have been some gorgeous sights, and some not so pleasant things, all of which I intend to blog in [...]