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The previous post is Cangshan (August 03).
The next post is Kunming (August 05).
I also have a photo gallery that I'm not sure what to do with.
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The Perry Bible Fellowship,
Xkcd,
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Joe. My. God.,
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Little Yellow Different,
Merrilee's Overseas Travels 2010,
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Sinobling,
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The Neutral Corner,
This Blog Sits at the,
Thomas P.M. Barnett,
Waiter Rant,
Ze Frank,
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I left the drapes open last night so the early morning sunlight would wake me; this is the best way to get up. I woke at seven, but hung around in bed for three-quarters of an hour before getting up for lemon and sugar pancakes (a British desert, I’ll learn later). Then I worked out for a good long while on the deck in front of several of the rooms here. Afterwards I had a second breakfast: a vegetable omelet, toast, and a tomato & onion salad.
This place is terrificly quiet. I may stay all day and do nothing. It’s the first time in a long while that I haven’t felt on the move or rushed to do something. The Lonely Planet says Dali is a place to take a vacation from traveling, but that text is left over from the 1994 edition, and it’s not true anymore. The Higherland is that place now. Tim and his girlfriend got up eventually, and we all decided to go on a day hike this afternoon and then stay for another night.
I spent most of the morning reading: first I flipped through a picture book on Taoism, then I started a mediocre best-seller from 1986, O-Zone, then I started another badly written best-seller, The Da Vinci Code. I was about one third through the later when Tim & co. came in for lunch. They had rice and I had the noodle salad again, and in a short while we set out along the level paved “Cloud Tourist Road”. We set out in the very warm mid-day sun along the easy path which we followed for several kilometers, past a small creek where we clambered around, around a small barried marking the end of the newly restored trail and onto an older, partially overgrown stone path that continue to curl around the mountains.
We turned back just past a stone bridge over a small creek where we tried to invent a three-person version of tic-tac-toe, and where time drew a long snake going for a box of gold under a rainbow. We returned just in time for dinner at seven, but Tim was sick and sat out. I spent the dinner in conversation with the family from Hong Kong and then stayed up to finish a badly written novel I mentioned earlier.
This journal must be dull reading.
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this journal is not boring, however i might not remember all the details. let me know when you are back in the States.
— bill Aug 6, 07:28 PM #Boring?
— Ferdbirfel Aug 7, 09:48 AM #I’m sitting here in the cube staring at the monitor trying to thing of something creative to do with a junk piece of VBA code. Come on down if you want boring!
Touche?
— Tom Aug 10, 05:46 AM #