Radical Eclecticity

Changzhou by Night
Originally uploaded by Ajax the Pirate
I’m going to shuffle the LITDSTPTSOA list around a little bit. My summer plans have officially changed. I will be spending all but about six days of my summer break in ChangZhou (pictured here, thanks to Ajax) teaching English to Chinese kids, improving my Chinese abilities, […]

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Though I fully intend to hit Vegas this summer on my way to three of the four states that I haven’t been to yet, I can’t afford tickets to all the Cirque du Soleil shows this year, so I’ll have to go back later. I’ll probably try to hit one of them, but we’ll see.
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Yellowstone falls
Originally uploaded by melepix
As there are only four states in the Union that I have not been to (I was mistaken about Wyoming, for those of you that I had told three states), I simply must get to see the rest of them. I need to visit Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. […]

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Great Wall
Originally uploaded by zsoolt
The first item on my list is to visit China. This is not as simple a task as it sounds, though. I don’t just want to go, see the word-famous tourist sites, and come home.
There are several reasons for this, among them being that I despise traveling in tourist […]

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I while back, I started this list. I emailed it to some friends as a desperate, last-ditch attempt to get them to commit to a gathering of friends that had been scattered about the country for too long. I even cited this list several times in conversations with friends and coworkers.
Then, I heard about this […]

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