Back in Beijing
Location: Beijing, China
Local Time: September 23, 2006 - Early
Well, it's not too early. It's light out anyway. But the computer I'm using has a time and date setting of sometime in 2002. I'm not inclined to trust it. I'd fix it, but some ill advised idiot has locked the time/date settings. A well advised idiot would set the correct time/date before locking it.
Back in Beijing. From Dali we rode the overnight bus to Kunming where we spent the day wandering the city, checking out a Buddhist temple, a faux-meat vegetarian restaurant, a lovely park with kites and musical performances and some pagodas.
Next night we boarded the train at 10:02pm. We slept 2 nights on that train, and I re-read our three books once or twice each. We played cards, talked to passangers, ate food off the carts, napped, and listened to the iPod. I listened to 2 hours of lectures from University of California at Berkley on introductory American history, post civil war. Podcasts are cool.
We arrived in Beijing yesterday afternoon, found a hostel to stay at (rooms are expensive here in Beijing, double other parts of China.) Then we wandered over to Wangfujing Street, watched the movie The Banquet, had some Chinese dumplings. I really wanted the fried minced meat in a bun they sell at the food stalls on the north end of Wangfujing Street, but after the dumplings I was full. Hopefully there will be time to go back tonight.
Local Time: September 23, 2006 - Early
Well, it's not too early. It's light out anyway. But the computer I'm using has a time and date setting of sometime in 2002. I'm not inclined to trust it. I'd fix it, but some ill advised idiot has locked the time/date settings. A well advised idiot would set the correct time/date before locking it.
Back in Beijing. From Dali we rode the overnight bus to Kunming where we spent the day wandering the city, checking out a Buddhist temple, a faux-meat vegetarian restaurant, a lovely park with kites and musical performances and some pagodas.
Next night we boarded the train at 10:02pm. We slept 2 nights on that train, and I re-read our three books once or twice each. We played cards, talked to passangers, ate food off the carts, napped, and listened to the iPod. I listened to 2 hours of lectures from University of California at Berkley on introductory American history, post civil war. Podcasts are cool.
We arrived in Beijing yesterday afternoon, found a hostel to stay at (rooms are expensive here in Beijing, double other parts of China.) Then we wandered over to Wangfujing Street, watched the movie The Banquet, had some Chinese dumplings. I really wanted the fried minced meat in a bun they sell at the food stalls on the north end of Wangfujing Street, but after the dumplings I was full. Hopefully there will be time to go back tonight.
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