Chapter 7: Shanghai’d
…that week was Marco, one of Manuel’s Italian friends and owner of the most famous Italian restaurant in Shanghai. Running a successful restaurant can be a very stressful job (even…
Chapter 11: Photo Album #1
It’s true. I photograph everything. One of the great things about being a photographer is it gives me a perfectly valid excuse to go places, see things, meet people, and…
Chapter 13: Business in China
…One with an equal amount of character. One which will keep my ears warm during the impending winter. One which also matches the Chinese / Russian army overcoat I bought…
Chapter 13½ The Al Capone of Jiangxi
…good job as a university professor and his mother is a math instructor. Could Mr. Carr ruin their lives as well? We went back to their house in my ragged…
Chapter 16: Christmas in Beijing
…conspire, and what insecure ruling party would allow that? Anyway, what I’m trying to say is I have found very few religious people here. (This is similar to the shocking…
Chapter 18: The Edge of the Sky
…far, and the temperature got down to about -3 degrees C.) So although my need to escape from the cold was somewhat tempered (no pun intended), I still heeded the…
Chapter 19: Photo Album #3: Hainan
Smoking break on a fishing vessel. Navigating around the coral. Take me home!! Hey, I’m not kidding, this place is JUST LIKE Hawaii! Dock of a thousand flags near dusk….
Chapter 22: Smothering with Kindness
…employ it toward others), but here I am in a far-off land and I don’t want to be rude or do anything to insult all of these people who seem…
No, it’s not KFC.
Please, no rude comments about all of the fast food I must have been eating given the two references made here. Wait until Chapter 17 when I’ll talk about all…
Father and Daughter on Motorcycle.
…unusual for a powered motorcycle to try to plow its way through a very crowded sidewalk. And although the driver was smiling, he was also bent on running me down….