Tag Archives: #tall

Once again, I think all those years of ducking practice will come in handy.

I love Xinjiang cuisine and Altun Orda was supposed to have some of the best in town.  Like Kashgar, the restaurant’s architecture & decor showed Middle Eastern, Russian, and Victorian influences. There was metal detector just behind these beautiful wooden doors, so I … Continue reading →

I let the kid at the front desk at the hotel upsell me to a suite with a balcony.  Per usual, I used my Can-I-put-my-elbow-on-the-ceiling? test and confirmed that, yes, I was still in Asia. In the hotel elevators, I … Continue reading →

Sometimes I sympathize with the Shanghai Tower.  After getting the “white giant discount” visiting M50, Debbie captured this shot of me standing next to an are-you-fucking-with-me doorway.  It reminded me of a few other Shanghai photos. This is me exiting … Continue reading →

 Eye-level on my morning walk to the metro station.

“All the shrines and temples are wood!  It’s like one of the primary differences between China and Japan.  Here they opted for wood whenever possible.  Because they could!  Wood, wood, wood,” I was thinking, as I slammed my forehead into … Continue reading →

Since moving to Shanghai, I still haven’t mastered temperatures in Celsius but I quickly learned that I am 1.93 meters tall.

My favorite of the X-Men, Nightcrawler, once said, “When you’re born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.”  Something similar applies to being tall in an Asian country and learning to duck. That’s eye-level on the Shanghai … Continue reading →