October Trip

Rachel and I took a trip last month to the Jiangxi province, which is a good window to the simple life of how the rural Chinese live. Our first stop was Nanchang, a city of about 3 million people along the Gan River. I got the impression that not many foreigners make it to Nanchang and that makes sense. There really isn't much to see there, except an ancient temple.

But that's why this trip was different from the others I've taken. We were not setting out in search of the Great Wall or some other tourist site. Instead, we were seeing the countryside landscape and visiting some places a little less polished.

So, in Nanchang, the locals turned their head more than once to look at us and wonder what we were doing there. It happened a lot throughout the trip, much moreso than anytime in Shanghai. From Nanchang, we took a train to Lu Shan, a mountain range about two hours away.....