Monday, January 5, 2009
And.... we're off
So tomorrow we're leaving. Not for Guangzhou, as originally planned, but instead for Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province (spicy food, earthquakes...) Apparently, if you want to get a train ticket to a popular destination, you should do so in advance. go figure! Anyways, we had to change plans, and instead of going south, west, then northeast, we're going southwest, east, then north. So, tomorrow at 1:50 pm we're leaving on a 33 hour train ride to Chengdu on the last two tickets available - hard sleepers on the top bunk. Fun is not a word I would use to describe what I'm about to experience. From there, we'll go to Yunnan, Xiangxi, and Guangdong provinces, with a possible trip into Tibet or Xinjiang if timing/governmental permits permit. My room in Nanjing is officially packed up. This is it. The home stretch.
再见！
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Ching Chong Charles better not be a socialist when he comes back. oh and I think, based on ur description of shanghai, that it is coal - with a lot of time and effort it can be turned into a brilliant diamond, but at the moment, although there are some serious flaws in and downsides of it, it is still valuable in its own way.
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