protect heritage: don't take pictures!: Images of the Silk Road

so i figure its time to move away from facebook and start to share a little bit more of my travels with everyone.

right now i'm in beijing, china, so most of my posts and pictures will have to do with that. if i have time, i'll also include some of the best of europe from earlier this year.

i'm going to include some of my favorite pictures along with each post here, but if you want to see the rest they can be found on picasa:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Sca787

so, you might be asking yourself: what's up with the title, "protect heritage: don't take pictures!" well, here it is:

i just got back from my 13 days on the silk road, and needless to say, i didn't get much sleep. so when it came time to come up with a witty and interesting blog title.. i had nothing. so, i looked to some of my pictures for inspiration. i wanted to use some standard chinglish (chinese translated directly to english with little or no understanding of what it actually means).. but, as you will see below.. they tend to not make much sense. instead i settled on the one above.

other examples of chinglish:

the last picture was in the elevator lobby of a 4 star hotel. every accommodation you can imagine, yet they weren't able to get a proper translation

anyway, i'm off to start the recovery process. so for now, i leave you with some of my favorite pictures of the silk road, with much more to come.

Gobi Desert