She just keeps on dancing.
My little solar hula girl is dancing right now.
hey there GRRR Travelers!
Welcome back and thank you for coming back!
Today I want to do a special announcement.
I've been blown away by the response you've been giving to some of my India videos.
Basically , my travel survival series.
I'm grateful you guys are watching it.
But at first when I started publishing them, I was like oh my god..
...400 views..
People don't want to go to India…
Escape!
Escape!….
Don't do any more India videos!
But the things is I have a lot of videos on India.
It's a country I love and I good a whole month in it.
And by the end of those videos, you will be like- Chris, this the first time going abroad
as a solo traveler but I want to go to India.
I will make it look easy, and adventurous and exciting to you, so that it will remove
the scary bugs.
Hopefully.
My whole idea is to who you the culture shock up front so that when you actually experience
it you'l be like,
Oh yeah, I already saw that in Christine's video.
She told us that all we need to do and …
And it will be nothing to you.
While I 've got the juices rolling and you guys are watching these videos…
I have to dig out and hit some other destinations.
But I have some other news to you that's equally exciting.
Wait, I have to put my bag on.
I'm on my way to work.
Okay, maybe not.
The lighting is kinda shitty here.
Okay so the big announcement is that I'll be going to Qinghai China…
God the light.
I've been invited by the Qinghai ...Tourism Board.
They will be flying me out to experience the region of Qinghai.
I'll be there on a press trip with other vloggers.
I wonder who's gonna be there.
This will be strictly for their tourism board and their profiles and stuff.
So I thinkI'll be taking two cameras with me.
One for their promotion and one just because I want to youtube it.
Because they sent me this email today and it's like June 8.
I have around two weeks at the most to expedite this Chinese visa.
Now the things about Chinese visas when you're getting them in America.
Unless you're living in the state where they have the Chinese embassy,. then you need to
find a way to hand-deliver your passport to the embassy.
Hand-deliver.
Which means a courier service.
Which means extra money.
This is probably a really big reason why I've not traveled to China yet.
Although the visas, when you finally get them, they have multiple entries and they last for
like 10 years.
So it's worthwhile.
It's just I've probably been lazy about getting it.
So there's things I need to prepare for.
What's been helpful is the tourism board sent us a few notes to help us plan our packing.
Cultural taboos,. clothing, climates, conversions and stuff like that.
Supposedly Qinghai has Tibetan and Mongolian influences.
People mistake me for being mongolian in certain areas of Asia.
The only mongolian I have to go off of is Genghis Khan.
That's very limiting isn't it.
I guess Qinghai is open to tourism or going to be open to tourism more and there not much
mentioned about it yet.
I'm stoked about this.
This is going to be an adventure for me.
And probably a bit outside my comfort zone.
Priority one.
I'm going to have to expedite my chinese visa.
Mail it off and get it to me on time before I leave.
Two.
Packing.
Figuring out what to pack.
Figuring out what camera gear to take.
Well that's a no brainer.
But I'll still have to think about it.
Four.
Try to get some videos pre-edited for you.
Five.
I'm sure there more stuff to do but… looking forward to it.
Cause China is a communist country, accessing internet will be an issue.
For those of you who didn't know, Chine has a huge wall.
No in and out of Googlling, no Facebook no social media.
In order to get through some of that, I've done some research as backup and I have a
handful of recommended VPN providers.
I think VPN is Virtual Private Network.
I put the word out to expat friends in China and travel bloggers and
I have three-- Witopia, Express VPN, VYPRVPN.
Those are generally paid services.
But there's one free one for your mobile called Betternet.
That's one I'm definitely going to download..
I want to be prepared.
If you're hoping to see more India videos, please come back in 2 months.
I have a lot to cover actually.
I want to be prepared so I can upload some stuff.
Hopefully upload some stuff to my social media accounts so I can let you into my journey.
For those of you who want to follow my journey, then please stay tuned, I'll be uploading
weekly.
Until then, travel safe smart and fun and may the GRRR be with you.
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