Tucker and I just got back from his second backpacking trip in Colorado. I had to make a trip out to Denver for work last Thursday. Tucker has really wanted to make another trip out to Colorado, so I opted to drive out instead of having my work fly me out. We drove out [...]
We went down to Arkansas for Thanksgiving week. Tucker has been wanting to climb Arkansas’ tallest mountain for a while now so I decided it would be a good opportunity for Zhen Zhen’s first backpacking trip. Since it was Zhen Zhen’s first backpacking trip, and for that matter her first camping trip, we [...]
Tucker and I just got back from a 3 day backpacking trip to the Holy Cross Federal Wilderness in Colorado. Holy Cross is around 120,000 acres and is located just southwest of Vail. Tucker has been wanting to do a Colorado backpacking trip for years now so he was very exited to go. [...]
I have not been as diligent in updating our blog the last few days because we have really been getting sick of China and I did not know if I could be very objective when writing about our time here anymore. At any rate, last Tuesday we did the street food thing in Guangzhou. [...]
On Friday we finally traveled from Nanchang to Guangzhou. We were in Nanchang almost a week, and that’s a long time to be in Nanchang. Especially if you have spent time there before. The flight from Nanchang to Guangzhou was Zhen Zhen’s first flight. She was super excited about it. We [...]
We have had Zhen Zhen for 3 days now. It’s gone fairly well so far, she still gets sad sometimes but much less so than the first day we got her. Communication has been our biggest challenge. Right now I think we are in a war of wills. We want Zhen Zhen to learn English [...]
Went for a run this morning and came across People’s Park in Nanchang. People’s Park is a beautiful park in the middle of the city that surrounds a small lake. Its the kind of place that you would only find if you got out and explored the city on your own. The park was full [...]
Ok, first off, let me preface all of this by pointing out that the Chinese government for some unknown reason censors this website. So the only way I was able to actually post to it was to log into the VPN at work, and thus tunnel all my internet through the Chinese censors. After traveling [...]
Tucker ran his first 5k today. He has been training for it a few weeks now. This race was sponsored by the Kansas City Trail Nerds, a local trail running group. The race was out at Wyandotte County Lake Park. The park doesn’t look like one would expect Kansas to look like. [...]
Harper and Tucker were on Spring Break this week and went down to Arkansas to spend it with their cousins. Tucker has been itching to go on a backpacking trip all winter long, so I took Thursday and Friday out and drove down to Hot Springs. I tried to get Harper to go with us [...]