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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 stamp in my generously stamped passport. It’s Macau. There are only two reasons why I would be ...

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 to London as a young lad during the 1970s. Those were the days when the 747 was an impossibly ...

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 northeast China from the Korean peninsula. There is a ''nature reserve'' a few hours drive ...