It’s midnight, & I’m so wired I can hardly think about sleep.
This morning Susie & I slept in a little, & when we got up it was pouring rain. We had decided to use our last day to the fullest, but the downpour & enjoying our instant cup of coffee while watching the view of [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 29, 2008
Sayonara Kyoto
June 28, 2008
Hang Fire!
I was able to get the shower working last night after a repeat lesson from the non-English speaking host. It turns out that Americans cannot understand slow loud Japanese. This morning I got up & made some coffee with my packets I’d bought at the supermarket. It was a real treat to be clean & [...]
June 27, 2008
Kyoto 2
Our plan had been to get up & eat the breakfast we ordered from the ryokan & then head across the street to see the temple & memorial, but either there was a misunderstanding about breakfast, or we slept too late, because it never arrived. We wandered down to the place we had dinner the [...]
June 26, 2008
Kyoto
We have arrived in Kyoto. It was very strange telling our group of 19 goodbye after having spent the last 3 weeks with them. It was also very scary to embark on a leg of the journey with no liaison or guide to take care of getting us from one place to another. Once Catherine [...]
June 23, 2008
Lijiang
Lijiang (Lee Jong) (7,000+ feet)
We were very sad to leave Dali, even though it rained the whole time we were there. It was so beautiful, and the temperature was wonderful – especially after the heat & humidity of Xi’ An. Our trip from Dali to Lijiang was by bus, as there are few flights into [...]
June 19, 2008
Kun Ming & Dali
Again… much to catch up on.
Kun Ming -
I find a new thing to love about each place. At first Kun Ming was a little bit of a let down from Xi’ An. But then we went to Green Lake. My favorite things so far on this trip have mostly been getting to interact with people. [...]
June 15, 2008
Xi ‘An
Wow, I’m really behind getting down all my sights & dumping photos off my camera. It’s so hard to make myself stop & record what I’m seeing & doing when I’d rather be seeing & doing some more!
Banpo Museum. We saw the site of a Neolithic village, complete with skeletons & artifacts. It was pretty [...]
June 12, 2008
China is a funny place
China is a funny place. It is one huge anachronism.
Right now, I am looking out my hotel window, and in the middle of the roundabout is a 700 year old bell tower temple where they still ring the bell. Behind it there are three huge times square type screens with advertisements on the modern high [...]
June 9, 2008
Bejing Day 2
I didn’t write yesterday because it was an absolutely wretched day. I was really questioning the wisdom of having come.
I saw Tinnamen square, the incredible Forbidden City, and the Temple of Heaven. The scale is past anything I could have imagined before I came. Sadly, a lot of the experience was lost on me because [...]
June 7, 2008
Shanghai’d
Somewhere in China.
Well, the 6 hour layover turned into a 7+ hour. The flight was epically long. I watched three movies. Slept about an hour at a time (better than what I’ve done before). So many things made me miss Wallace. Each seat had a video screen on the back. You could choose movies & [...]
