China and the Year of the Rooster
Oh hello there! And welcome to this universally agreed upon post of 2017. Western New Year - check. Lunar New Year - check. Everyone's happy (: But mainly, I am happy because I got to cross many a thing off my bucket list in the first few days of 2017 (The Best Year Ever!) I am following my 'travel more' goal, while still being frugal - another goal - and I saw one of the Seven Modern Wonders of the World! My second, and the one I always used to think would be the most difficult for me to get to, before I knew about my Asia-expat-plans. As is Laura & my tradition of our quickie-trips. We left late Friday night (23:30) & hopped from Incheon to Beijing in a whopping <2hr flight. Once officially in China, we waited, & waited, & waited for a cab >< it was a cold wait, a sleepy wait, a 'wow-this-is-really-more-polluted-than-we-were-expecting' wait, but it was worth it & we got to our cheapo airport hotel without
