71 days

Linxia

Linxia is a Muslim town, surrounded by dry hills and cornfields, where Tibetans shop wholesale. It...

Jul 31st

back from not visiting Xiahe

I’m in Lanzhou again for a few hours (onward train this evening), back from three days of...

Jul 31st

change of plans

Okay, I’m close to having all the tickets and whatnot I need for the rest of my time in China,...

Jul 28th

Videos from Japan on flickr

I’ve posted some select videos that Neil took from his camera in Japan. They range from the...

Jul 28th

noodles

My train friend Feili and his friend Rachel (a lot of college-age folks seem to have an...

Jul 28th

hard sleeper to Lanzhou

Sounds like a book title, eh? Anyway, this is what happens when you take an overnight train in...

Jul 27th

more about Chengdu

Okay, breakfast at guesthouse before train (oatmeal with watermelon and unidentifiable local fruit,...

Jul 25th

new stuff on flickr

I’ve started a photoset on flickr with one photo per day in it, chosen sort of on the basis of...

Jul 25th

lunchtime for monks at the Wenshu Temple

Jul 25th

dinner at the fancy vegetarian place downtown. Shoshi and I...

Jul 25th

after the rain at the Green Ram Temple

Jul 25th

monk in a cowboy hat

Monk in a cowboy hat! Monk in a cowboy hat! What could be more Tibetan than that? Yesterday I...

Jul 24th

Sim's Cozy Guesthouse

I arrived in Chengdu last night, and I’m staying in the nicest hostel I have ever stayed in....

Jul 23rd

mountain temple village in Seoul

Jul 23rd

Saori and Naomi in the plastic food-model neighborhood (hey...

Jul 21st

Peace signs for Totoro at the Ghibli Museum (Ghibli =...

Jul 21st

Naomi spreading mayo and worcestershire on our kimchi...

Jul 21st

Tokyo

(wrote this yesterday—didn’t get through for some reason) I’m at the Hot BB...

Jul 21st

Okinawan food

As it turns out, there is such a thing as Okinawan food, and it’s two blocks down the street...

Jul 14th

lunch in the river in Kibune. The noodle DJ sits in that...

Jul 13th

at Imamiya Shrine

Jul 13th

forgot one

Grilled mochi on little sticks, in sticky sweet miso sauce, in an old, breezy tearoom that (we were...

Jul 13th

more of Kyoto

Still havent figured out the USB port or the apostrophe situation, so no photos or proper...

Jul 13th

Kyoto

I cant find the apostrophe key but Kyoto is completely enthralling. Women in crisp uniforms ladle...

Jul 11th