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No Shit-ism: Chardonnay with a conscripted Soviet army bomb tech, among other oddities 15 Jul 2013 | 02:44 am
Prague, Czech Republic I might be looking in all the wrong places, but after four weeks, I think I’m ready to proclaim that Prague isn’t much of a party city. Unless your platonic ideal of the perfec...
So you were all totally right and Berlin is the promised land 8 Jul 2013 | 10:54 pm
Berlin, Germany Trains and I have been romantically involved since before I could hold a pen. In the game of “do you love me more than…?” my nanny usually won out against all comers, but I couldn’t i...
Come into my Castle: a wedding in the Czech Republic 25 Jun 2013 | 06:23 pm
Decin, Northern Czech Republic A year ago, the unthinkable happened. Marta the Czech seductress, wickedly smart jet-setting party girl, courted by oil sheikhs and private pilots, the same Marta who o...
Prague Old Town: basically Final Fantasy III 16 Jun 2013 | 11:07 pm
Prague, Czech Republic I don’t know what else to call it: everything here is so Eastern European. A brief and ecstatic stopover at the grocery store revealed that the five Czech food groups are bread...
You Fancy, Huh? 5th Anniversary in Pingyao Old City: Selling Out Like a Boss 22 May 2013 | 10:48 am
Pingyao Old City, Shanxi Province I got married at 25. Speaking globally, I guess that’s an acceptable average, but for a commitment-phobic white girl who spent as much time as I did listening to Kath...
Slot machines and DPRK dreams: a vacation in North Korea or, where the hell is everybody? 10 Apr 2013 | 08:56 pm
North Korea / DPRK 8:30 a.m., April 5, the Mansudae Grand Monument. North Koreans get the day off to celebrate QingMing Tomb Sweeping festival, a national holiday of ancestral worship all over Asia. M...
Blasted by Dawn: or, Free Sunrise, Courtesy of Hotel East 28 Mar 2013 | 09:02 pm
Posted from: Beijing Sunday morning, just barely 6:30. Kyle and I sat bolt upright in bed as the room was invaded by ultraviolets. All the hotel rooms at East are fronted with a floor-to-ceiling windo...
Turning 30 at Mercante and Plans for Sweeping Tombs in North Korea 16 Mar 2013 | 04:02 am
Beijing, China People keep asking me what it feels like to be 30. It feels like 29, except that no one asks you what it feels like to be 29. Birthdays, shmirthdays. I only hope that as time goes on, I...
Chinese New Year in Chengdu: Ruckus in The Big Empty 13 Feb 2013 | 02:01 pm
Posted from: Chengdu, China The Year of the Snake kicked off this February 10th, sparking widespread depression amongst product designers tasked with making grotesque cold-blooded reptiles look like w...
One Gray Gray Snow Day: Kendra’s Vegetarian & Vegan Survival Guide to Beijing 20 Jan 2013 | 09:17 pm
Posted from: Beijing Rumor has it there are weasels in the hutongs. Kyle says he saw one, and the thought of furtive hutong weasels hiding in the drain pipes and making legends of themselves pleases m...
