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 [...]
Day: 245 Sometimes I think a hangover is the greatest way to get astounding night shots. I wasn’t up until 11am, followed by a couple of hours on the internet chatting with my Dad and blogging. I immediately chased that with a nap until roughly four. A waste of a day to be sure, but [...]
Day: 244 I spent seven hours today in a hurling steel cocoon of death that weaved in and out of three lanes of traffic across the rain slicked road from Pingyao to Xian. My Ipod was shuffling through a playlist from my mother’s birthday party with classics like “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Bohemian [...]
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Day: 242 After yesterdays adventure I have been left spent for today. Waking up and showering before midday was an accomplishment. This beautiful little town was well deserving of the few strolls I took throughout the day through its maze of brick buildings and grey stone streets. Amazing food and a very chill vibe, which [...]
Day: 241 I finally managed to sleep until 8am; so fully rested and ready to tackle the day I had a cup of coffee and an omelet before hitting the odorific streets of Beijing. Having already got passed caring about the usual morning smells of decaying trash and urine that seem to coat Beijing’s alleys, [...]
