She gave us a bag of nectarines, lychee and plums to take on the road with us. In China, nectarines are eaten when they are still hard and a little green. I don’t think I’ll ever eat a soft nectarine again.
We are in Zhoukua and we could get some seriously swelled heads if we stayed here much longer. We went into a local store looking for deoderant and baby-wipes and we were received like celebrities. Every female employee there squealed and pulled out her cell phone, took off her work smock and posed for photos…
Today we walked through the least developed, most rural part of China we have seen so far. Towards the end of our 20 mile walk we saw windmill farms and we even passed a power plant. We aren’t sure why the town we are now in has absolutely no electricity. We did however manage to…
We walked a little over 4 miles from our campsite to the first restaurant we saw. Now we are enjoying a little breakfast while we watch fledgling mud swallows make their first attempts at flight. They are so brave and confident. It takes a lot of nerve and gumption to leave a warm nest and…
Today we passed through a place called Stone Forrest. It’s basically a bunch of limestone rocks that stick up out of the ground. It was pretty and on our way so we walked in one end, took a few pictures and walked out the other end. It’s not really near any town so bus loads…
Yesterday morning, Doug and I were watching the news and we saw a video of a woman walking down the sidewalk somewhere in China. She stepped on a manhole cover, it collapsed and she fell in. Not more than 6 hours later we watched a young man try it lift a manhole cover, slip on…
We are in Tangchi Town enjoying a magnificent thunder and lightening storm the likes of which we never get to see in coastal southern California. We are staying at a hotel that sits on the shore of a lake. The lake is directly in front of us and a hillside full of trees and dotted…
We only got 11 and 1/4 road miles in today even though we actually walked closer to 13. We left Kunming and started walking along the 324. It was a traffic jam of such proportions that the firemen in the firetruck that we passed eventually got out of their big red fire engine, grabbed their…
Before I became an interpreter I had met exactly 2 Deaf people in my life. Something very interesting has happened since then. I literally cannot leave the country without meeting Deaf people. It has happened in every country I have visited. I ceased to be surprised by this phenomena a long time ago. I am…
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