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Ni hao as they say in the People's Republic. I'm back from China and so jet lagged that I probably shouldn't be operating a computer, let alone a motor vehicle. The thirteen hour time difference is harder to handle on the way home for some reason. The new and useless daylight savings switch landed conveniently on top of my arrival. I felt much perkier upon landing in Hong Kong than I do now, perhaps it was the duties that I faced. None--- whereas today has been been a day of locating toothbrushes, stowing equipment, doing laundry, sorting snail and email and generally preparing to return to the real world.
Ye ole spammers have been busy in my absence, so there's lots of information about viagra and ringtones to vacuum off Dakota too.
Suffice it to say that I had a lovely time and would go back in an instant. The Chinese people are warm, friendly, funny and astonishingly entrepreneurial in a way that can only have been inspired by many years of oppression.
I shot up three and a half 2GB cards, as well as all four of my 512MB cards. I doubt that I have room on my hard drive to download most of my photos. Many were taken on bumpy roads, out of spotty bus windows with the mystic knot tassle hanging from the rearview mirror swishing through the view, so there's a little editing to do there too.
Photo note: The lighted lotus, albeit plastic, at a Tibetan cafe in Da Li
Posted by Dakota at March 11, 2007 06:11 PM