Trips

That Time I Spent a Month in China

Our 2019 trip to China is our first big trip I decided to document, for a few reasons. Not many Westerners get to visit China, let alone Xinjiang. I also tried to simply share what I saw as a tourist. I also got to see the other half of the family, and the way they live, for the first time.

The way I'm going to structure this is chronological. We have around a thousand pictures and videos of our trip across Korla Xinjiang, Chengdu, Beijing, and more.

Our trip to China had a few goals. Being recently Married (more than a year) I hadn't ever met my wife's family in person. Due to immigration issues my wife hadn't been able to see her family in person for five years, so this trip was a fairly big deal in that regard.

Note that a lot of the pictures and videos are fairly blurry depending on the light, due to an issue with my phone that began shortly before the trip. I now have a S20 Ultra 5G - won't be making this mistake again!

Some of our other goals were food, sightseeing, and hotsprings. I've always wanted to go to a hot spring and somehow in the crazy SF bay-area life I never made time for it. This time I do.

We visited Beijing, Xinjiang, Yutian, Chengdu, Mianyang, and Leshan.