They are still very strict about foreigners...would love to spend half my time there and the other half here for my kids...a nice little business over there of some sort...but it is very difficult
I had never really been overseas..and I just went with 1 weeks basic planning and no knowledge of anything...on my own and ended up in Central Rural China for 6 weeks with a local family with one family member knowing a little English..and no one in the village (6000 pop.) ever seeing a white man before. WOW!!
China!!! Just going back and forth from Rural Life to the City Life...doing what the Chinese do..living the way they live and eating what they eat!!! Love it!!!
RE: back in THE day....
Try Googling her to see if there is anything about her recently..