Month: January 2019

I was looking for a quick weekend escape to wake up to mountains and trees instead of tall buildings and city lights, and that is exactly what I got just outside of Hangzhou near West Lake. After a quick one-hour bullet train from Shanghai, I was unsettled when I first arrived and saw Hangzhou is…

If Shanghai is China’s New York City, Beijing is most definitely China’s Washington D.C., but, of course, with significantly more ancient history. The city has a clean, silver look to it, and political power and history bleeds through its streets, along with traffic. With most counties’ embassies in Beijing, you can see and feel the…

Hello world! I’m Dani Seat. After years of saying I was going to do this, here I am, looking to give anyone wanting to read a bit of insight into my eyes and mind as I soak in all that this planet and its life has to offer. I’m an American in my mid-twenties. I…