Travels
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Heading to Cambodia after a last week in Laos. I'm hearing horror stories about the roads from the Cambodian border to Angkor Wat, so I may just chicken out and take a flight.
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I stroked my elephant's head and trunk and ears for a while. My elephant really enjoyed the stroking, I think. Her ears flapped back and forth (more than usual) when I scratched between her eyes.
Twentysomething
Shock, then fear. Fear because the waters pulled me towards the rocks, rushing fast around the bend. And fear because YuppieNomad can't swim.
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I had been in the country for more than two days, and I saw no skyscrapers. Or a street with more than two lanes. Or a condo. Or a house made of materials other than bamboo.
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After reading over the bogus dates for the third time, the kind fellow finally agreed to give us our visas the next day (right before our bus left for the Chinese border).
Spirituality
Mountains, holding up the skies, on both sides. The waters, under the crush of their own weight, hurried along below. Trees and skies and earth and water.
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We got lost in the fluttering flags of the stupa adjacent to the monastery – the reds and greens and yellows made flapping sounds in the light air, like chants afloat on the mountain winds.
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Wild horses nipped each other, neighed, and took off across emerald pastures. Mountains, stereo-typically and wonderfully craggy and snow-capped, jutted their pointy chins in defiance of the sky.
Travels
I am feeling a bit better, however. Just splurged on a nice hotel -- stellar dining, swimming pool, down comforters (!) ... now I just have to find that $5 massage and I'm back to roughing it.
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Internet's a bitch in China. Can't access blogspot, NY Times or other western media sources (well, the connection to them is so slow sometimes that it's not worth it).
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There are some serious mountain ranges to cross on the road back from Deqin. At our highest point, we were about 3.5 miles above sea level. The road pretzeled and rhombused. At certain points, the mountains devoured the pavement, leaving only gravel and dirt.