Tuesday, January 17, 2012

I want to share my China Adventure with you.

Most people want to know how long it took to get there. Well, the air travel was about 17hrs, with the plane changes and layovers, it was about 23 hours each way.

We flew a total of 14,663 miles, there and back.

I was surprised at how beautiful the country is. Hardly anybody lives in the country, the concept of suburbia is just now hitting China and it’s not going over that well. Maybe it’s the travel time, car prices, gas prices, or just not what they are used to. A GM car there costs over a million quay ($150,000).

The Great Wall of China spans over 5,000 miles. Parts of the Wall were built over 2200 years ago. It was built to keep the nomads out of China. For more on the Wall go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China

We went to see the the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi’an.

Pit # 1 was amazing it was like a city of clay people. There were over 6000 warriors in pit one. They estimate that it will take 70 years to complete putting all the warriors back together. It looks like a huge jigsaw puzzle with some parts completed and some not. The faces and expressions where all uniquely different. I would have loved to have seen them when the color was still in tact. There was an archer found in one piece and it still had the red color on it.

Check this out, for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

The people are very friendly and in Baoji the small town of about 800,000, we were like celebrities. They don’t see many foreigners. In fact our grandson was the first foreigner born in Baoji.

Everyone I talked to, which was only about 20 or so people, most of them English students, think that we are so lucky to be  FREE in America. I did not disagree with them. Of course you know, I told them that they were truly part of the change.

More on that maybe later.

Thanks for sharing this trip with me.

I pray that today we find lots of reasons to have a grateful heart; whether it be for a roof over our heads, food on the table, friends and loved ones, or just for the air that we breath.

I pray that we are grateful for all of the experiences and all of the persons that have been a part of our lives, they have been our teachers.

We are who we are because of are experiences and our perceptions of those experiences. We are blessed.

blessings & love,

Until next time, be radiant, radical, and real!