LN Lurie:

traveler, podcaster and bassoon-player who has curly hair, loves inspiring others to live life.

  • Places I’ve traveled to (or written about)
    • Africa
      • Egypt
      • Namibia
      • south africa
      • Tanzania
    • Asia
      • China
      • India
      • Japan
      • Philippines
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Australia
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • Guatemala
      • Nicaragua
      • Panama
    • Europe
      • Italy
      • UK
    • Middle East
      • Iran
    • North America
      • Canada
      • USA
        • Alaska
        • California
        • Illinois
        • New York
        • Ohio
        • Texas
        • Washington
    • South America
      • Chile
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Galapagos
      • Peru
  • Logistics
  • Ramblings
    • Hope
  • Random Post

Category: China

China Observations – playgrounds

Posted on 2016-05-22

Someone asked me “What country has the most shopping?”. Which is a silly question to ask me….. But! I now have the answer: Asia. And […]

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China Observations – iMiss (food!)

Posted on 2016-05-15

Have I done a couple blogs about ‘imiss’??? ah yea. there is it. I talk more about the “missing stuff from home” than I write about it, […]

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China Observations – expensive day

Posted on 2016-05-07

Most of the time when I travel- I do it as cheap as humanly possible. I usually eat street food. Actually, I almost ALWAYS eat […]

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China Observations – COLD!

Posted on 2016-05-01

As of this writing… it’s snowing…. STILL…… Eff you, Minnesota. But I shouldn’t complain. Because I have access to heat. FIRES! Glorious wool blankets! I thought […]

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China Observations – “Somewhere safe in America”

Posted on 2016-04-24

This is an interesting one… I get asked this a lot. “Where is ‘safe’ in America?” “It depends on your definition of ‘safe’.” I usually […]

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China Observations – Cold (weather)

Posted on 2016-04-17

Incase you didn’t get the memo, I’m house-sitting in Minnesota for my aunt. MINNESOTA. DURING THE WINTER.   This is because I’m an awesome human […]

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China Observations – Health care (attempt 2?)

Posted on 2016-04-11

I don’t know what happened to my last one. But here ya go….. ATTEMPT NUMBER 2!!!! (this took me all morning to figure out.) So […]

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China Observations- Chinese Healthcare

Posted on 2016-04-10

Now…. a long time ago (almost a year!) I did a podcast about worldly healthcare. If you heard that- this is just another story about […]

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China Observations – iMiss Food

Posted on 2016-04-03

When I first started traveling- I kept a log of foods that I missed. Actually, 95% of my days (while traveling, or otherwise) are spent […]

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China Observations – buying stuff abroad

Posted on 2016-03-20

If my podcast hasn’t gone out already about packing- it should soon! And it’s a good one- BECAUSE! It talks about the awesomeness of buying […]

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China Observations – getting lost

Posted on 2016-03-06

The scariest thing about traveling in a foreign country (for almost everyone I talk to) is getting lost. What do you do? How do you […]

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China Observations – PDA

Posted on 2016-02-21

When I was in India – I kept seeing men holding hands. In their culture, it’s totally forbidden for men and women to hold hands […]

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China Observations – CRAZY BACKWARDS!

Posted on 2016-01-10

  I think I’ve said this before- but one of my favorite “games” while traveling is trying to figure out how to do the things we […]

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China Observations – dinner party

Posted on 2015-12-27

I was talking to a friend about living abroad. I told her that everyone has different customs. Even if you went down south from NY, […]

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China Observations – The Haircut!

Posted on 2015-12-06

I’ve purposely grown out my hair so I don’t need haircuts all that often (once a year?) But the last time I got it cut […]

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China Observations – Medicine

Posted on 2015-11-29

When we were in Africa, there was a lot of attention on Rhinos and not to take pictures/post pictures of them. (If you do, poachers […]

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China Observations – “where do I buy…….?”

Posted on 2015-11-15

People here in Minnesota keep asking how my aunt is. I tell them “well, she can’t wait to come back. But I’m glad she’s taking this […]

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China Observations – part 4

Posted on 2015-11-01

So- my aunt wrote this to me and I couldn’t help but think: “I feel the same way”… Here I am, in a new town […]

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China Observations (#3)

Posted on 2015-10-18

I’m slightly behind on my aunt’s Chinese Observations. #2 talks about how they hired her husband/her to teach. The selling point was a “FAB LAB” […]

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China – observations #1

Posted on 2015-09-20

  This is something different… These aren’t MY posts– but my aunt’s. See, my aunt is living/teaching in China. She was born in Philadelphia and […]

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Ep16. Hospitals

Posted on 2015-05-17

Hospitals are scary…. But why? I’m scared of the cost- but what are OTHER people scared of? We investigate other countries (Australia, Canada, South Africa, […]

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