Waking Up Me!

This weekend, a dream came true and I traveled across the world for the second time in as many years and flew into China. As a young girl, I was fascinated with China. I am not really sure why exactly, but the beauty of it drew me there in my thoughts often. As the travel shows, documentaries, and even the big screen movies featured China, I imagined a chance to come here, but didn't really know when or how. The mountains, the rivers traveled by old boats making a way through the wilds and ancient time all drew me in. It was dreamlike in quality. While I am not in the part of China I had once dreamed about, I can see flavors of it all around me in the people and the architecture if not in the landscape that captured my eye and mind. Street Vendor with lovely fruit in Foshan Qinghui Gardens Last year, I was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and just fell in love with the area. I was telling my colleague that it wasn't just KL or Malaysia I really enjoyed, but the whole experi