Postcards From the Fringe

The great Jinshajiang bridges will someday be engineering icons…

There aren’t enough dollars in the system, and the situation keeps getting worse…

We arrived in Kunming yesterday by high-speed train. The train covered the 441 miles from Nanning in four hours.

We get this question everywhere we go: What do we do about school for our kids?

As you read this, we’re probably on a long bus ride to some new city... or in a cheap backpacker’s dorm, me studying economics, the kids doing their schoolwork…

We took a bus from Hanoi to the Chinese border. Then crossed the border on foot…

I can’t help seeing the world in terms of gold since we made gold our “home” currency.