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Excerpts from Our Book

Excerpts from Our Book – “Trekking the Globe with (Mostly) Gentle Footprints”

Aug
21
2005

The Many Faces of Beijing

Our love affair with Beijing started with our first walk, of many, down Wangfujing Dajie, Beijing’s prestigious shopping street. Swept into an explosion of neon and glitzy store fronts, we know this is not a true representation of typical Chinese living standards, with young women in fashionably scant outfits, men in expensive business suits, and [...]

Aug
21
2005

The Great Wall at Simatai

Looking around us we breathe deeply to still our exhilarated heartbeat at the realization of a life-long travel dream – we are standing on the Great Wall of China.

Jun
10
2005

Down Under

In my minds eye I see the outline of our footprints in the sands, soil and roadways around the globe; indelible impressions forged by the ultimate adventure of travel. Our book, “Trekking the Globe with (Mostly) Gentle Footprints”, is a year’s worth of tread marks through twelve countries, a dream come true as well as [...]