Tag: Trip
I’m Going Home!!!
by Sean on Jun.03, 2010, under Miscellaneous, USA
I know I haven’t been updating this website lately, but if you go to my personal blog you’ll know why. Just as a side note before I continue, today is the 701st day I’ve been in China. Since I’ve been so busy since March working my butt off to save money for this trip (so far I have $7000 saved), I’ll give you a preliminary budget and outline for my USA trip:
- July 1: Fly from Wuhan to Shanghai, Shanghai to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Miami
- August 6-9: Fly from Fort Lauderdale to Chicago to see my friend Ish
- August 14: Fly from Fort Lauderdale to Seattle to see the Twins and Maddy
- August 15: Skydive in Seattle
- August 17: Fly to San Francisco
- August 21: Rent a car and hit the road south to Monterrey
- August 22: Drive to LA
- August 26: Fly from Los Angeles to Shanghai
- August 26: Fly from Shanghai to Wuhan
As I mentioned above, I’ll be coming home with $7000, $2200 of which will be going to pay back my credit card bills (flights and pre-existing charges), thus leaving me with about $4800. My roundtrip tickets (WH-SH,SH-LAX,LAX-FLL,LAX-SH,SH-WH) cost $1800, which I know is a lot, but considering I used only one website to book them all in a row without any hassles, it’s a good deal.
My intent is to spend no more than $2000, and I should be able to stick to that budget since my friend Ish generously offered to cover my expenses (need to look for a cheapppppp flight, anyone?). During the times not specified, I’m free to do whatever I want, and will be seeing as many people in Florida (Miami, Pines, Weston, Davie, Coral Springs, Orlando, Gainesville) as I can. It’s already proving to be a crazy trip.
It’s been 2 very long, trying years that have also been very fruitful and educational. 1 more year to go!
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New Trip
by Sean on Aug.02, 2009, under China
Normally I would post this on my personal blog site, but since it’s a post directly related to travel, I shall post it here. As mentioned on my blog, I have 4 friends coming to China from America to visit me. They’ll be arriving in Hong Kong on the 17th of August and traveling until the 7th of September. Because my new job begins September 1st, I have to leave my friends to return back to Wuhan on the 29th or 30th of August. We are purposely traveling to places in China I’ve never seen, so get ready to enjoy many new posts! Here is our itinerary:
Itinerary
As I said, my friends are arriving in Hong Kong and going into the Chinese mainland via Shenzhen. From there, they’ll meet Lily and I at Guilin (her and I are coming from Wuhan). In Guilin, we’ll see the beautiful natural scenery that’s infamous amongst people who travel to China (or live here). Then we’ll go over to Shanghai, where I went in April. After Shanghai we’ll move on to Beijing, a city I’ve avoided seeing for the entirety of my time in China! There we will see the extremely old wall of China, the emperor/dictator’s city, and whatever else tourist crap they will throw at us. After, we’ll head to Xi’an, where the terra cotta soldiers are located. I have a German friend there that I’m hoping to meet up with too!
Unfortunately, because my job begins so early, I’ll only really have 10 or 11 days with my friends, whom I haven’t seen since May 2008, when I graduated from university. 3 of them live in Seattle, and the other in North Carolina, so me being a Floridian and now a Chinaman, it was impossible to see them after university. As a result of my job, I have to leave them at Xi’an to return to Wuhan. They are tentatively planning to fly from Xi’an or Wuhan to Lijiang to hike for a few days in the Tiger Leaping Gorge. In the end, they’ll have a few days left to hang out in the surrounding area of Hong Kong. They’ll be free to see such areas as Shenzhen, Macau, Zhuhai, and Xiamen!
Well, that is the itinerary for my next trip! I’m veryyyyyyyyyyy busy from now until then, so don’t expect to see much action on the website!
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