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Tiger Leaping Gorge, Balagezong, and Shangri-La
The next few days were a long travel days. The distance as the crow flies is not too far, but Yunnan’s mountainous terrain with its many hairpin turns slowed us down a lot. The trip from Baisha to...
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An unexpected ending: Shaxi, Weishan Dali, and back to Kunming
On Friday morning 4am I woke up in Shangri-La and I did what I typically do, check my health and travel codes and take screen shots of them. Sometimes the internet is slow or the systems are...
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How China dealt with the COVID19 Delta variant
About one month ago, the COVID-19 delta variant escaped from Nanjing airport into the wild. Apparently, the cleaning crew of an airplane from Russia didn’t handle the security procedures correctly and...
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Wrapping it up – 1 year later
It is November 2022 and as I’m sitting in my quarantine hotel in Shanghai preparing for another visit to China, and by popular demand write another blog, I realized that I never finished the blog from...
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Another trip to China
These last 12 months have been a roller coaster. After returning from my 5-month stint in China last year (2021) I was focused on launching Azure’s ARM service and I was also exploring my next role...
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A free man, yet again
Things were very chaotic this Saturday. On Friday afternoon 11/11 the Chinese government announced that they had changed the quarantine requirements from 7+3 (=10 days) to 5+3 (=8 days). I was excited...
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Enjoying Shanghai and getting ready to take on China
As I alluded to yesterday, my first twelve hours of freedom were occupied by grabbing a beer with a friend, followed by dinner with a few other friends. I hadn’t seen these folks for over a year. For...
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COVID-19
There is a strange vibe hanging over Shanghai. People are afraid. The two-month long COVID-19 lockdown in the Spring of 2022 has left its mark. It comes up in most conversations I have, and the...
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COVID-19 (Continued)
At the beginning of this 2nd trip blog, I mentioned that I wasn’t sure what was going to happen and that I had to be flexible with my plans. Well, that flexibility is being tested. I’ve been visiting...
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A tumultuous week
This has been a tumultuous week in China. From widespread unrests to the passing of Jiang Zemin. Right after I posted my previous blog entry last Saturday, things boiled over in Shanghai. A vigil that...
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