by Steve Elliott | Sep 14, 2016 | Trip to China 2016
Shanghai is a lot like Chinatown. Only bigger. 20 Million people bigger. Traffic lights are few & far between, so you just have to work things out and negotiate who goes next. Mostly this is determined by who has the loudest horn. Right-of way, in order, goes to:...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 31, 2016 | Steve’s Musings
The other day, Jaqui reminded me that years ago I referred to Chen Man-Ching’s T’ai Chi form as Inferior T’ai Chi. I apologize profusely. I can only hope that Jaqui can forgive said comment as the off hand remark of a testosterone laden and obviously...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 25, 2016 | Steve’s Musings
The four enemies. (Loosely liberated from Carlos Castenada) The first enemy is fear. Fear paralyzes you. For fear, you don’t act. There are several forms of fear. One of the lesser manifestations of fear is worrying. If you are constantly imagining bad things in...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 24, 2016 | Trip to China 2016
Pre-take-off de-briefing. So far my research into traveling to China has revealed: Bring your own toilet paper. Public restrooms don’t provide same. No shorts. Boil water. Twice. (I procured a travel water filter that claims to eliminate 99.9% of all bad stuff.)...
