Traveling, Traveling and Traveling

Our Chinese New Year vacation, which began with a slightly strange Christmas in Shenzhen, western New Year's in Hong Kong and a trip to the ancient capital of Xi'an, next took us on a loop through Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia. Our journey was mostly by train and sometimes not-so-stable bus, but we made it without any real problems. We returned "home" with tans, bags stuffed with the luxuries of the orient - silks, maps, jade, massage oil - and a feeling that there is so much more out there to see and experience than 4 1/2 weeks can allow.

Blogging about all this is a daunting task, so I will mainly just be posting pictures of our time in SE Asia (although I will have a few comments to post along the way!).