Away I go...

I'm off to China to meet up with my husband, and explore a part of the world I never imagined I would see. We are starting in Beijing, then moving south to Kunming and up through the Sichuan-Tibetan highway to see Lugu Lake, Chengdu and Xian before we return to Beijing to fly home. I have a particular interest in the Mosuo people around the Lugu Lake area, which are one of the precious few matrilinear societies in China. The lineage of the family is traced through the women, which is unusual, and women make many of the household and financial decisions. There is also an interest in gender balance, as opposed to the prominent male bias in Han culture. Go Mosuo!