When you picture your ideal retirement, does it involve warm climates and condo living? Or great adventures overseas? Writer Changming Yuan and his wife had visions of living in China’s Yunnan province, poetically known as “the South of the Clouds.” But they were going to do their research first. This week, they share their
month-long, city-by-city exploration of the province,
where they discovered that poetry and distant lands are ideals, not destinations.
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