I’m still going. But maybe backwards. It seems like things might be less hectic because of festivals, crowded slow boats, etc. if I go to Siem Reap first and then the other way through Laos (Vientiane, then Luang Prabang, then boat to the Huay Xai border) and then back down through northern Thailand. But hey, […]
There is little detail because I have to spend my time on a childish “course journal” for a final-year politics course. Grumble, grumble. As I suspected, I ended up gawking around Shenzhen on Wednesday instead of taking a bus to Yangshuo. The border fortifications between the HKSAR and the Mainland are just as imposing as […]
The inscrutable people at China Travel Service foiled yet another of my plans today by refusing to sell me bus tickets from Shenzhen to Yangshuo. I don’t know if they’re sold out already or if they just don’t like me. I’m going to run up to Shenzhen tomorrow to find out. I wouldn’t be surprised […]
It’s official: I booked a ticket (with Becky) from 4 to 15 January, Macau to Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia (and Singapore) here we come.
It embarrasses me to admit it, but this 16 degree (~60 Fahr) weather late at night actually feels a bit chilly to me. I hate to think of how cold I’ll get in real cold weather. I went hiking yesterday behind the school with one of the tutors and a friend. It was refreshingly wooded. […]
To those of you about to get buried by a foot of snow in the midwest: I just got back from a barbecue. On the beach. You’re welcome :-) In other weather news, the (rather late, amusingly named) Typhoon Durian just made an unamusing dash through the southern Philippines… they’re really getting hit this year. […]
