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South Korea July 9-20, 2023 This is my second time in South Korea. On my first trip, I only saw Seoul and Jeju. I have returned to see three Nomad Regions, about 7 WHS and many NM Series items added … Continue reading →

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – CENTRAL, GULF, ORO, WEST (Port Moresby)   M@P D’Entrecasteaux islands Louisiade archipelago Trobriand Islands Woodlark Islands archipelago   Tentative WHS Kikori River Basin / Great Papuan Plateau (06/06/2006) Kokoda Track and Owen Stanley Ranges (06/06/2006) Milne … Continue reading →

Day 23 Wed July 12 I was up at 5 to give an interview for Greg Nestoroff of Kootenay Culture Magazine on the KMC Karabiner. CHINA – SICHUAN – EAST (Chengdu, Mianyang, Luzhou) CHENGDU (pop 20,937,757). The capital of the … Continue reading →

Day 16 Wed July 5 I went to the Peking Capital airport on the metro – green line 8, blue line 2 to Dongzhimen Station, mauve line 13 Capital Airport Express 25¥. Stops first at the International Terminal 3 and … Continue reading →

Day 11 Fri June 30 Flight. China Eastern Yinchuan T3 – Taiyuan @11:30-13:00 MU9954 CA$171 (the train was a slow train, took 8 hours and was fully booked with standing room only, so my only real choice was to fly). … Continue reading →

Day 4 Thur June 22 I left Beijing from the Beijing South train station for the 30-minute high-speed rail trip to Tianjin. But there were no tickets until 17:30 and I had all day to kill. I could never have … Continue reading →

China June 19-July 28, 2023 China has a population exceeding 1.4 billion. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, tied with Russia as having the most of any country in the world. With … Continue reading →

Africa’s diamond geyser How to get rich from commodities Tips from Botswana on how to avoid the resource curse Jun 8th 2023 ECONOMIST  Africa’s soil is studded with buried treasure. Half the world’s diamonds are mined there. The largest producers of cobalt, … Continue reading →

A 1904 painting by Kobayashi Kiyochika depicts a scene from the First Sino-Japanese war with sailors crippled by beriberi disease. Investigations into the source of beriberi ultimately attributed the illness to a diet heavy on white rice, which was deficient … Continue reading →

Petra lost and found In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building was a temple for the … Continue reading →