Checking Off The Great Wall From Our Bucket List

This spring break, Ellen and I visited John in China and in the process made some significant progress on reducing the length of our personal bucket lists.

After the jump, our itinerary and links to photos.

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• In the Air to China:
  • Mackinac Island, Sault Ste. Marie, Quebec, Greenland, Siberia (Who knew that to get from Texas to China, you just might fly over Greenland?)
• Jiaxing:
  • Jiaxing University, where John teaches English
    
  • South Lake, where the Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921
• Shanghai:
  • The Bund
    
  • Xintiandi
    
  • Nanjing Road
    
  • Shanghai Museum
    
  • Pudong
    
  • Yuyuan Garden
    
  • Old City
• Xian:
  • Terracotta Warriors Museum
    
  • Xian Wall
• Beijing:
  • Sanlitun
    
  • Beihai
    
  • Houhai
    
  • Mutianyu Great Wall
    
  • Qianmen Dajie
    
  • Tiananmen Square
    
  • Forbidden City
    
  • 2008 Olympics Stadium