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Video--Imagethief and the top-secret dam of Panjiakou: A Great Wall diving adventure

Posted Saturday, August 09, 2008 10:53 PM by will
Regular readers will recall that Imagethief recently accompanied Steven Schwankert of Sinoscuba to dive a section of the Great Wall that lies underwater in a reservoir at Panjiakou, near Tangshan. A prior blog post about that trip is here . We had an Read More...
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Yet more of the AP Great Wall dive trip video

Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:34 AM by will
The Denver CBS affiliate has more of the AP video of our trip to dive the Great Wall on Sunday. This clip includes two brief segments of me in full cold-water regalia talking about the experience. Somehow I appear to have upstaged Steven, who actually Read More...
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Some video from our weekend dive on the Great Wall

Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 11:57 PM by will
Along with Sinoscuba impresario Steven "Commando" Schwankert, Imagethief hauled himself and approximately four tons of gear out to Xifenghu on Sunday to dive a sunken section of Great Wall. Xifenghu is a reservoir near Tangshan. It takes about three and Read More...
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Everything you need to know about the Chinese visa situation?

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 8:07 AM by will
China mavens will know that China has tightened up its visa issuance regulations significantly in recent weeks. There has been much piecemeal reporting on this, but it has been hard to find good, comprehensive information on the situation. While several Read More...
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Wrenching change ahead for China's air travelers

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:13 AM by will
This advisory was just sent to us by CITS, the local travel service: 民航总局严格手提行李规定 New Regulation of Carry-on Luggage 根据中国民航总局的规定，５月１日开始，在国内航班上持头等舱客票的旅客，每人可随身携带两件物品；持公务舱或经济舱客票的旅，每人只能随身携带1件物品。每件物品的体积均不得超过20×40×55厘米，上述两项总重量均不得超过5公斤。 According to CAAC , new Read More...
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Terminal 3 again: You can't park that 747 here, buddy

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:31 AM by will
Regular readers will know that Imagethief made his first departure from Beijing's spanking, new Terminal 3 last week. Well, close on the heels of the first departure must come the first arrival, which I made on Sunday afternoon. On the whole it was OK, Read More...
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Imagethief does Beijing's new Terminal 3

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:33 PM by will
Imagethief put the “ass” in “business class” last night, when he had the rare privilege of being able to sit at the front of the 747. While I’ve had the very occasional business class intra-Asian flight, this was only my second business class trans-Pacific Read More...
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Further adventures in glamorous international travel

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 10:17 AM by will
Having arrived in Macau, the romance continues. First was immigration, where the lines crawled as officers stamped arriving passengers in with the indifferent sloth that seemed circa Vietnam, 1996. My immigration officer painstakingly inspected every Read More...
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Because you haven't suffered enough: In-flight mobile phone service

Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 10:08 PM by will
As a regular user of China's domestic airlines, Imagethief has learned the hard way that Chinese air travel is simply the bus travel of the twenty-first century. It's been a painful process for someone who still recalls flying Pan-Am from San Francisco Read More...
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Murdoch's sinister plan or just a travel book?

Posted Sunday, September 02, 2007 10:17 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to stumble across an AP article revealing that Rupert Murdoch's Harper Collins imprint has purchased the rights to a travel book originally published by a Chinese press affiliated with the People's Liberation Army Air Force: Read More...
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Video: Imagethief and the man-eating otter of Changbaishan

Posted Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:03 AM by will
I've posted to YouTube a video of the trip I took to Changhbaishan last summer with Mrs. Imagethief and my father. It took me the better part of a year to get around to editing it, but here it is. Changbaishan is the rugged mountain range that divides Read More...
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