tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:27:16 +0000an ongoing photoblog of an american in asiahttp://www.betsygoestochina.com/noreply@blogger.com (betsy)Blogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-3519434604247068035Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:47:00 +00002008-12-24T14:54:33.664-05:00 Merry Christmas, everyone! I know that I am loooong overdue for an update, and now seemed like a good time to say hello. Especially because I actually have pictures to share. Many, many, many pictures. A few weeks ago, I descended upon the great city of New York for several days to see old friends, do some Christmas shopping and partake in the annual event that is Santacon, in which several http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/12/best-day-of-santas-and-my-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-4462633886946718294Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:25:00 +00002008-09-25T23:28:11.336-04:00There has been much running around, what with finishing up a very good, beachy summer and heading into a busy fall and all. It's been great fun, if somewhat exhausting. Here are some snaps of a friend's beautiful beach wedding last weekend in Ocean City, New Jersey – full of fun times with old college friends, beautiful babies, and lots of laughter -- and also from a long NYC jaunt just before inhttp://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/09/its-been-too-long-hasnt-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-2020593035662412486Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:29:00 +00002008-08-27T17:30:19.678-04:00 The past couple of months have been a huge blur of deadlines, bbqs, beachy moments, very summery D.C. things like happy hour in the Smithsonian sculpture garden, and a rousing bachelorette party with my best college buds in Ocean City/Atlantic City (where the above photo was taken in the wee hours of the morn, shortly before I had to go and sleep for about three days). I have a slight reprieve http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/08/calm-before-storm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-5366728888917634294Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:06:00 +00002008-07-19T17:12:58.620-04:00So last month, I journeyed to the super-friendly and fairly idyllic city of Indianapolis to spend a long weekend with my extended family. It was a nice departure from my normal running-around-town weekend activities and was full of lots of porch reading and afternoon naps, long walks and donuts for breakfast, heated croquet matches and plenty of Goodwill thrifting. {Okay, so that last one wasn't http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/07/ah-indiana-hoosier-hospitality-and-very.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-3943195259253015576Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:23:00 +00002008-07-14T22:23:46.739-04:00 Just a few days after I spotted my birthday rainbow hovering over Georgetown, I headed out of town to Indianapolis, which was green and fun and family-licious. My flight on the way back was delayed an hour or so due to heavy storms in D.C., and by the time we headed into Reagan National (a.k.a. Best. Airport. Ever!… especially if you are sitting on the side of the plane with a view of the http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/07/rainbow-connection.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-2658301804557787578Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:53:00 +00002008-06-18T10:54:51.443-04:00 We signed up for a summer share in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for this summer – weekdays only, which works out just fine with my freelance schedule and also lets us avoid those occasional beach unpleasantries like crazy weekend traffic jams and drunk college students throwing up in the front lawn.Our house is a sweet little cottage just off the boardwalk (in the afternoons, as you laze around on http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/06/beachiness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-4866754669045442568Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:35:00 +00002008-06-09T15:36:20.689-04:00 My l'il brother came for a visit over a very sunny Memorial Day weekend, and we spent much of our time exploring the monuments, museums, local margarita vendors and other corners of DC. Also the exciting Falls Church Home Depot and a few terrible traffic snarls, but that's another story. http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/06/this-ones-for-all-you-monument-lovers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-2696365395337560523Thu, 22 May 2008 22:15:00 +00002008-05-22T18:17:59.922-04:00My dad came down from Delaware a few weeks ago on a sunny Sunday afternoon so we could check out the brand-spanking-new baseball stadium for the Washington Nationals. We had great season-ticket-holder seats – thanks to a friend of a friend – which afforded us a prime view, cushy seat backs and a private Ben's Chili Bowl vendor for the section (had we known about this last development, we would http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/05/taaaaaake-me-out-to-ball-game.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-3083603047278782173Mon, 12 May 2008 20:32:00 +00002008-05-12T19:31:46.627-04:00My college friend Darren – who has become quite legendary in my story-retellings, what with his propensity for random trips to Monte Carlo and also the time he convinced me that lobster antenna was a delicacy – moved to Nashville a few years back and throws a big ole tailgating and afterparty for Steeplechase every year. I had fully decided not to go, but at the last minute, found a ride from D.Chttp://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/05/very-ponytastic-weekend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-7300975646341290382Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:38:00 +00002008-04-30T12:45:00.808-04:00OK, kids. A little change of pace. I don't usually go around asking for support, but this Saturday, I'll be taking to the DC public schools with a paintbrush and a toolbox as part of a city-wide effort to spruce up the schools. (Ha ha, I'm not sure they know what they're in for. Who wants to bet I get relegated to "supervising duty" within the first hour?) The Servathon project is organized by http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/05/your-good-deed-o-week-maybe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-4781551873412354417Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:11:00 +00002008-04-09T13:42:24.902-04:00Does taking pictures of geometrical ceilings of the D.C. Metro station ever get old? I think not.Now that spring has sprung (at least some of the time), it's been great fun getting out and doing various D.C.-y things. We kicked off our personal "Spring in the Nation's Capital" calendar of events last Friday at the Hirshhorn After Hours party, a semi-regular Friday night gathering during the http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/04/very-dc-weekend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-4805657060123248202Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:55:00 +00002008-03-21T13:01:31.992-04:00So, it's spring! Which means: a) Flowers! b) Cute spring clothes in lots of fun colors! c) I actually am starting to want to leave the apartment, which means there will soon be nice long walks, which means there will soon be pretty new photographs to spruce up this sadly neglected site. Most of the pics that would have been here were put on the other site as of late, like in this post and this http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/03/spring-spring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-500880072562869568Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:31:00 +00002008-01-31T11:22:57.663-05:00 About two years ago, in the midst of moving from Beijing to Singapore, I sorted through my thousands of China photographs and narrowed down the list to about 60 favorites. Almost all of these have appeared on this site at one point over the past four years, but not all together in one big, happy package like this. China was full of a never-ending stream of photo opportunities, from my home in http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/01/china-greatest-hits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-6148731150324787034Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:33:00 +00002008-01-28T04:37:49.269-05:00 Surprise! We here at Betsy Goes to China are enjoying a rare moment of legitimacy today, as I'm actually in China, wrapping up a week spent hanging out around my old home of Beijing. It's been a fantastic trip – it was my first time back to the Mainland since I left in October 2005, and I'm happy to report that Beijing is both excitingly different and reassuringly similar to how it was when I http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2008/01/very-special-bgtc-post-actually-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-5987137006896001376Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:55:00 +00002007-12-19T18:59:31.226-05:00 Okay, just so you don't have to look at my kitties for the next few weeks (who are adorable but perhaps a tad overexposed), here's a shot I took in Vietnam on the last trip I snuck in right before I left Asia. I love the cheery colors of the lanterns...http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/12/one-last-pic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-8954177447000559634Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:22:00 +00002007-12-19T13:24:09.290-05:00Firstly, the kitties would like you to know that they are really enjoying America. Apparently, the armchairs are waaaay more comfortable than in Singapore. And they really prefer the snuggly warm of the heating system to that awful, frigid air conditioning.Secondly: yes, we are all in America! We moved back to the D.C. area two weeks ago today and are still very much getting settled in and http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/12/happy-holidays.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-4562200819979132618Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:21:00 +00002007-11-17T22:24:04.381-05:00Well, hello. It's been awhile. (Cue dramatic, adult contemporary music here.)I didn't really mean to disappear for so long. (And in fact, I'm still over on the other blog quite often, so you can check that I'm still alive by clicking there.) But it occurs to me that my non-fashion-obsessed friends and family – such as dad, Ryan, the brothers Guschl, for starters – might be wondering about my http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/11/how-i-spent-my-summer-and-fall.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-2174734767881310013Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:26:00 +00002007-06-12T02:37:23.289-04:00 I've finally managed to whittle down my Burma trip pictures from over a thousand to 75. Which is a lot, I know, but it's my blog and I'll post 75 pictures of Burma if I want to. The trip was really fantastic – we spent lots of time with our friends Megan and Quinn and their son Cooper, who live in Yangon (that's the former Rangoon for you Austin Powers fans). We flew up to Bagan, where more thanhttp://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/06/burmese-days-and-myanmar-nights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-8546867481005873256Sat, 19 May 2007 00:17:00 +00002007-05-18T20:21:49.442-04:00 …is never enough. We did our best though. http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/05/four-days-in-new-york.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-6165448604891655525Tue, 01 May 2007 14:21:00 +00002007-05-01T22:54:21.392-04:00For the past couple of years, I've timed my visits home perfectly: in the fall, just as the air turns crisp and cool and sweater-y; and in the spring, when the flowers pop and the air warms up and it smells like freshly mowed grass. The past two weekends have been the nicest to hit Delaware so far this year, and I took full advantage of being able to be outside for more than 30 minutes without http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/05/smells-like-spring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-8759416854813830138Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:21:00 +00002007-04-03T23:31:13.737-04:00My parents were just here for their semi-annual Asian Adventure. They bopped all around Singapore, headed to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for five days, and wrapped things up with a quick jaunt to beautiful Krabi, Thailand. It was quite a full trip – we saw nearly every side of Southeast Asia -- with lots of elephants and war relics and Singapore Slings and island-hopping and some extremely http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/04/family-vacation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-8182354596759105710Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:39:00 +00002007-03-13T07:40:44.669-04:00I was lucky enough to spend the last week in Tokyo, where despite the fact that it was very cold (my blood has grown accustomed to 88 degree days!) and that I caught a cold (cold breeds germs, apparently), I had myself a little Japanese-style blast. Actually, I worked a lot, and slept a lot (thanks, cold) but I still managed to make it out and see some fantastic Tokyo things.And now, our http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/03/tokyo-quite-possibly-greatest-city-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-5143479569511683420Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:58:00 +00002007-02-19T09:10:46.732-05:00kittens Today was supposed to be day three of our Adventures in Burma; however, that is not the case. The Visa paperwork didn't come through on time, so we postponed our trip until April and found ourselves with a four-day holiday weekend (for Chinese New Year) and absolutely nothing to do. Which is sort of exactly what we are doing, save for a little Trivial Pursuit-ing last night. I think it's fair tohttp://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/02/monday-lazy-monday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-9003103378238083511Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:10:00 +00002007-02-09T21:12:19.952-05:00MacauLast month, Mike and I took a long weekend and headed up to Macau, a former Portuguese colony in the south of China near Hong Kong. It's also the Las Vegas of Asia, thanks to a growing crop of casinos. You know how I love the blackjack. We weren't quite sure what to expect, but were definitely excited to finally check it out.Suffice to say, we loved Macau. The architecture and atmostphere is a http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/02/i-left-my-heart-and-my-money-in-macau.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34980931.post-117089763313017080Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:17:00 +00002007-02-07T20:24:52.343-05:00I suppose when one gets to a point where one is getting concerned e-mails from one's parents, friends, and just about anyone she's met since approximately age 11, it has probably been a bit too long since she updated her blog. And so. Hello! Thanks for sticking with me as I balance life with a daily job, cute but demanding kitties and a fresh supply of Veronica Mars episodes (thanks, Andy!). http://www.betsygoestochina.com/2007/02/alive-and-well-and-kickin-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (betsy)1