zieak.com » Travel http://www.zieak.com Ryan McFarland's website Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:27:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Using Priceline’s name your own price for cars too http://www.zieak.com/2009/11/09/using-pricelines-name-your-own-price-for-cars-too/ http://www.zieak.com/2009/11/09/using-pricelines-name-your-own-price-for-cars-too/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:21:26 +0000 Ryan McFarland http://www.zieak.com/?p=3672 I regularly use Priceline to book a hotel in Seattle near the airport for layovers. Getting a great room for about $60 is really nice. But i just nabbed a rental car for three days while in Seattle too…

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]]> http://www.zieak.com/2009/11/09/using-pricelines-name-your-own-price-for-cars-too/feed/ 0 UNESCO sites i have been to http://www.zieak.com/2009/11/04/unesco-sites-i-have-been-to/ http://www.zieak.com/2009/11/04/unesco-sites-i-have-been-to/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:36:29 +0000 Ryan McFarland http://www.zieak.com/?p=3661 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has a list of about 900 sites worldwide of significant cultural or natural importance.  I have been to the following ones…

  • Mesa Verde
  • Yellowstone
  • Grand Canyon
  • Redwoods
  • Pueblo de Taos
  • City of Cuzco, Peru
  • Machu Picchu, Peru
  • Lima, Peru city center
  • City of Quito, Ecuador
  • Chichen-Itza, Mexico
  • Banff & Jasper in Canada
  • Great Wall, China
  • Imperial Palace, China
  • Temple of Heaven, China
  • Longmen Grottoes, China
  • Angkor, Cambodia
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About 5 hours later we arrived in Luo Yang… home to the Longmen Caves UNESCO World Heritage site and the Shaolin Monastery – the home of Shaolin Kung Fu and Zen Buddhism.

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“…brewed with selected natural materials. This kind of beer is very popular in USA.”

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Employees plied the train cars selling soups, beverages, and even jewelry. People slept. Jordan read. Pepper and i talked about the wedding. I had a beer.

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The tangle of trains that head to more rural areas of China… Rural is a very loose term here.

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You know which train is leaving from which platform now? Yeah… this is what makes travel difficult in areas lesser frequented by foreigners.

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In the afternoon of our second day in Xi’an we went to the train station and negotiated the masses. I have had bad luck at foreign train stations so i was on high alert… Here’s a glance to one side of the first floor of the station. We already had our tickets so we could avoid this mess. I took a panoramic set from here and will stitch it together later.

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A pair of rickshaw drivers kept each other company in the fog atop the Xi’an city wall.

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Pepper borrowed my camera and snagged this surreal image of the Xi’a City Wall on our second day in the city.

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