Friday Night in Guadalajara

WRITTEN BY Julie

After diligently planning lots of fun sprinkled into a chaotic work trip in Mexico City, I arrived in Guadalajara expecting to do more of the same. With five full days worth of marketing research to do, I thought that...

06.06.18

Only the Highlights in Mexico City

WRITTEN BY Julie

Here’s the story of my first trip to Mexico City. Work. Work occasionally brings me to some fun places (which has led to some wacky ‘adventures’) and this time around, it brought me to Mexico. Thanks to...

06.01.18

May 2018 Month In Review

WRITTEN BY Julie

Where We’ve Been United States: Minneapolis, Boston, Portland, Maine, 11 days China: Shenzhen, 20 days Highlights Family Time: We had such a fantastic visit with our families in the United States early this month....

05.29.18

Our First Year as US Expats in Shenzhen…in Stories

WRITTEN BY Julie

When we lived in London for one year and for two years, we wrote a lot about our experience, our thoughts and feelings about the transition, and everything we loved and learned along the way. But this month, as we were...

05.23.18

Beijing for Beginners

WRITTEN BY Julie

We lived in China for almost a year before visiting Beijing. This wasn’t a conscious choice, nor an avoidance. More a compounding of circumstances that resulted in multiple visits to Shanghai and regular weekends...

05.01.18

April 2018 Month in Review

WRITTEN BY Julie

What a month. These type of travel months don’t come around very often, and for that we’re grateful. While it’s fun and exciting to see ancient wonders of the world and explore markets and struggle with languages...

04.19.18

Do You Know the Way to Taipei?

WRITTEN BY Julie

(OMG, my love for a quirky rhyming title that includes a throwback to Rent, best musical of all time, never ceases to inspire me.) There aren’t many places we can get to quickly from Shenzhen. Turns out, distances...

03.26.18

Getting Cozy in China

WRITTEN BY Julie

My word for 2018 is ‘Cozy.’ It’s not an annual thing for me to pick a word for the year. I’ve done it before, but as I’m sitting here, I don’t remember the last time or what my word was. I do remember one...