I'm so excited I can barely sit still. While most of America was out shopping today on Black Friday (the kick-off to winter holiday gift buying), I relaxed at home with two of my three kids and some good friends (my older son is in the city with Lao Lao, the Chinese name for … [Read more...]
O’Hare Sweet O’Hare
I can't write about Midway without thinking of O'Hare.Relatively late to the Midway party, I first used it just after I turned 20. But O'Hare was a different story altogether. My first flight out of ORD took place when I was just two months old.O'Hare was located closer … [Read more...]
A little bit country
My trip to Arizona got me thinking about something. I've always considered myself a city person. Given a choice between New York City or Florida, I'd choose New York. Hong Kong versus Phuket? Hong Kong hands down.But then last week I found myself driving south from Sedona … [Read more...]
Palace Hotel, Shanghai
With the all the fanfare of the renovations at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, its southern neighbor and one-time annex has met with fewer bells and whistles, but a grand restoration just the same.I first learned about the annex when I stayed at the Peace Hotel in 1995. At … [Read more...]
Old Jazz Band, Peace Hotel
Speaking of tourists, no trip to Shanghai would be complete without a visit to the Peace Hotel, home of the Old Jazz Band. It's one of the best ways to relive 1930s Shanghai.And I don't even care if it's a tourist trap.My parents stumbled upon this band of senior citizens … [Read more...]
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