My name is Kevin and I was born and raised in South Florida. I have lived in South Florida, in between Miami and Fort Lauderdale in a small place called Cooper City for the majority of my life. I live in Beijing, China from 2014-2016, while I was there I took advantage of the opportunity to travel as much as possible through China and during that time I visited over 20 different cities. I am fluent in Chinese and managed to get to some places that aren’t often frequented by Westerners (although those places are becoming more and more rare). I have an extensive knowledge of how to travel around China. I have also traveled to Japan, Thailand, Bolivia and some cities in the United States and Canada. My area of focus will be China, however, I will also include some of those other places that I traveled and go into detail about what I would do and how I would do it if I had the opportunity to return to those places.
My goal for writing this blog is to both give people recommendations about what to do, where to go and more or less how much time they should expect to spend in their destinations. I have had excellent travel experiences and horror stories and from all of those experiences I hope I can help more people have positive experiences and avoid the horror stories.
In preparation for traveling to each of these places I conducted research to see what the popular sights and attractions were in that area. The culmination of the information obtained about these places came from multiple different sources such as local knowledge, searching the web and travel books. Along with this blog I also highly recommend picking up an edition of the Lonely Planet. I think those books are well written and organized and they put the top sights at the beginning of the book to be able to locate those areas quickly, whether you’re reading in your house or on the go you can quickly locate the sights that you want.
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