Random wrap up
I was just on my laptop loading photos to send over for my latest NBC blog post and I realized I had some nice photos from David and Kathy's visit that I never got up..thought I'd so so quickly.. More coming.. Delaware Dave sits in with Woodie…
Basketball mania and more
Spent all day in the IBC today. That's the International Broadcast Center. NBC's setup is pretty wild -- a labyrinthinian mini city. I may gain 20 pounds in the next few weeks too, because the catering is preposterous. burgers, pizzas, ice cream,…
Becky in the news
With the Olympics closing in, Rebecca is doing a lot more writing these days. So check out the WSJ every day and you will see her byline a lot more than any time in the past five or six years, since she first became a capo de capo.
Last week,…
Delaware in the house
Been too busy with too many things to write alot but brother Delaware Dave is in china... He and wife Kathy ad Jesse have been off in Western China in Yunnan all week. These pics were from last weekend.Atop the Drum Tower, looking out the Bell…
Pictures of Qingdao
We spent three days in Qingdao last weekend. Our first visit there and it's a nice place. Glad we made it.About an hour away is the holy mountain of Lao Shan (Old MOuntain). It's really beautiful and peaceful, rising right up form the sea. The…
Most recent NBC post.. and link to them alll…
My latest NBC blog post is here. It is now weekly and will soon, of course, be daily. I will also soon be too busy to keep posting these links. Luckily for you, my faithful readers, I have finally figured out where the index page for all my…
Travel Guide Column
The Stresses and Rewards
Of Playing the Tour Guide
July 4, 2008
I wear a lot of different hats: father, columnist, blogger, Olympics reporter, bandleader. But the most challenging and at times anxiety-provoking is tour guide. I'm…
Great Wall hike video
Video of our Jinshanling-Simatai hike.Original music by, who else?, Woodie Alan
Most recent NBC post — cheerleaders alert
This might be the most widely read thing I've ever written. It involved coverage of the New England Patriots cheerleaders' visit to Beijing to train Olympics cheerleaders. And it turns out that having the word cheerleaders in an online story…