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Artist Painting at Hukou Falls Shaanxi Province 2

Yan’an and Hukou Falls National Park: exploring Northern Shaanxi province

China offers the beautiful, the delicious, the weird, the perfect. China is awesome. It’s easy to plan a trip around visiting the big sites or famous spots, or even seeking out off-the-beaten-path places, but what about just the lesser-known or totally out of the way spots? Well, I’ve got tips to

Bell Tower at Muslim Quarter in Xian at night panoramic

Xi’an City Guide: experiencing China’s history, nature and culture

Seriously, I could write about China all day every day. Thinking about what areas of China to visit, people will probably research what spots are going to have the best tourist sites or most famous Chinese landmarks. If that’s the approach you’re taking, then no doubt you’re going to be

The USA holds a lot of quirky attraction for non-Americans, including drive thrus and Florida's conch fritter stands, from JustGoPlaces

Making travel plans for the USA: an expat’s view of visiting home in America

We’ve written several times about what we look for in a destination, from activities to cost to previous visits. We’re pretty good at making travel decisions together to create the most fun vacations for our kids. Following the recent election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States

Travel Planning and Things to See in Rome…with kids

We have so much travel planned in the next few months, but we’re also looking at our next potential trips too. We may be hitting the UK in September. We’ll definitely be in Mexico in October. We’ve been talking about Italy. Last time we were in Italy we just wandered

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