There is a place and a people in the North that has grown in my heart over the years, a place where laughter is loud and deep, where space is wide and silence immense, where loons call and we will have moose for supper tonight. Deer Lake, Ontario, here we come!
Our trip ended in Canton, known for its duck and delicious teas and dim sum. Our Chinese friends, Liang and Sami, live here, in the city of Guangzhou. Our second to last day in China, they took us to Sami’s hometown: a small town in the countryside of Canton whose name I can’t remember. I
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Xiapu is a county known for its mud flats… …and its sea food. Soon after we arrived at our inn on the edge of the city, we walked down to the harbor, where the tide was just coming in. We hailed a captain and asked for a ride. He took us with a few other
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I don’t know exactly what it was that made me fall in love with Wuyuan County, but I think it was the homey, old world atmosphere; the clear air, unpolluted by city smog; the friendly people. We arrived in the city of Wuyuan after dark and, following our friend Liang’s advice, sought out a hostel.
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We took a slow sleeper train to Shanghai instead of one of the lightning fast bullet trains we usually preferred during our China travels. Our sleeper carried us fifteen hours across the country through an evening, a restless night, and an early morning. In the evening, I sat on a small foldout seat across from
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