Just an hours drive away from Yabian’s capital Yanji, there’s the sleepy little border town of Tumen. Tumen sits on…anybody?????….anybody????????? BUELLLER???? Yes the TUMEN river. And just across from Tumen on the Tumen river lies…NORTH FUCKING KOREA. The riverfront has been somewhat developed on the Chinese side, it has a long park, apartment complexes and [...]

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Late one damp December evening, a friend and I hatched up a plan for an adventure to Dongbei, China’s unforgiving north-eastern frontier where we could sample the scenic sights and…SNOWBOARD IN CHINA….oh hell yes! I’d wanted to ride in China for a while, I mean, the shear geography of the place meant there had to [...]

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