China was a place I always dreamed digging to as a child while I played with my plastic army figures in my sand box in the backyard. I don't know why, maybe because it seemed so far away and the people so different, I always had such a fascination to go there.

As I watch the Olympics on television I chuckle at some of the places they show as they come in and out of commercial or in different special reports about the country. I laugh because it's so funny to think that, "yeah, I've be...