Day: 255 Nimrod looks over at us and all he says with a grin is “Jesus’ is bigger.” Proud once again that Israel has something better that the rest of the world. He was of course comparing the Dali Lama’s birthplace to Jesus’ (who supposedly has a big church). I did finally managed to get [...]
Day: 254 Last day in this boring city, I am as exhausted of it as you are. Tomorrow I am off on the first day of 13, across the Kham region here in China. Hopefully the nomads don’t have cameras to stalk me there.
Day: 253 When I said yesterday that most likely nothing would take place today, I was right. I spent most of the morning in some mix of being on the internet, eating, napping or reading (pretty much what I do at home). Finally 3pm came around and I set out across town to see if [...]
Day: 252 In my rush to get out of Xi’an, attempting to find something new to photograph, it never dawned on me that I’d be put in a place that could end up being excessively dull. Xining is exactly that, everything it has to offer is as a stop over to the wilds in the [...]
Day: 251 Now I pose a question. Would you pay $25 for a 17 hour overnight train ride on a “hard sleeper” crammed in with six people in a cabin or would you splurge for the 1 hour plane ride for $50? Thats what I thought also. Perhaps it makes me somewhat less of a [...]
Day: 250 I just wrote “Day: 250″ and was astonished that this little project of mine has lasted so long. This blog is to me what I’d imagine a nagging wife to feel like after 50 years of marriage; it’s sometimes a pain in the ass, but it’s still comforting to know it’s there. There [...]
Day: 249 Not really waking up, so much as deciding to stand up and shiver instead of lying down; my alarm on my new $20 Casio watch told us it was almost sunrise. Sophie and I wandered up to the summit hoping to find one or both of our friends, only to find instead a [...]
Day: 248 After spending so many days in Xi’an I needed to get away. Something natural, possibly some exercise mixed in. Shuffling though the pages of my Lonely Planet I found Hua’ Shan, a mountain with a supposed amazing hike only two hours away. I basically just spoke up last night at the hostel bar [...]
Day: 247 I was going to write, but other than some random meandering and the market, nothing really happened today. Besides, I have to catch a train in a few minutes.
Day: 246 I was expecting something astounding out of China’s officially rated “2nd largest tourist attraction.”, yet it was far from that when walking into the gigantic steel aircraft hanger that covered the recently discovered (1974) Army of Terracotta Warriors. Certainly, seeing six thousand unique life-sized mud statues in battle formation is remarkable, but the [...]
