Beijing here I come!

I'm in Vancouver, about to board the plane. In roughly eleven hours I'll be in Beijing. Had a nice view of the Rockies on my flight here. Looks like there is some fresh snow covering the peaks around Canmore. Unless China doesn't let me in, my next post should be from Beijing.

Last minute packing and planning

Well this trip certainly snuck up on me. I have so many little things that I want to do before I go and I'm not sure I'll be able to do them all. I feel a bit anxious. I had a bit of help in planning from Liping, my friend's aunt. She gave me a pretty good idea for an itinerary and I'll do the rest of my planning on the go; on the plane perhaps.

The photo in this post is one of the photos that inspired me to go to China. It's a photo of Li River near Guilin. The river cuts through a number of limestone formations. In addition there are some pretty interesting fishermen, who train cormorants to catch fish. It's one of my planned destinations.

I fly out tomorrow!