Off to China

Tomorrow I leave for a 16 day trip to China to (as I tell it to Lily and Jacob) make movies, take pictures, and draw maps, which is actually what I tell grownups too. Click on the map over there >>>

to see some of the places we're headed to.

The head of the Anthro department at the Museum is leading the trip and fortuantely he's born and raised in China so he'll be the local guide. Unfortuantely, he's from Beijing and can't understand the local dialect so our guide will require some local guides of his own.

There's gonna be lotsa driving and even a plane flight within China. The site has been deemed so important that they've entirely enclosed it making mapping quite civilized. But they still don't have anything more accurate than a tape and compass map so it's time to kick it up a notch (or seven).

The culture whose spread 7000 years ago in China is known as Hemudu, and there's already a pretty cool museum just down the road from our site (that we are of course going to visit) that is built next to another important site with reconstructions and everything - take a look here if you want it in English or here if lotsa Flash animations and untranslated Chinese don't scare you off (slow loading).

Down below you can see some recent pics from Thanksgiving - I'm thankful for a table that can seat more than 4 - thanks ET ! Also some shots from a recent surfing outing, a trip to maui, and pictures of Jake's new P-38.