Things to Bring with us to China for our 76 day trip from Beijing to Kashgar.

passports with visas

plane tickets

travellers checks?

sunscreen

fedora hat

flip flops for showering

guidebooks

pictures of interesting things and/or people from home

music that you want China to pirate and mass-distribute

Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionary

Tibetan-English/English-Tibetan dictionary

whistle for crime prevention

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3676403.stm cute little SARS masks]

real live money as I hear outside of the big cities they don't take credit cards or speak English (mom)