09-22-2007, 07:05 AM
"Why?" Well Dave, I had this strange premonition that the Rolling Stones were gonna end up cancelling their Honolulu-concert last year, so I went to the one in Shanghai instead.
Nah nah nah nah nah.
That was a lie. (Wish it was so!)
Actually I wanted avoid the big-box middle-man and get my goods from the source! Ha!
I'm sorry. A case of the rainy-day Sillies, I'm afraid. Truth of the matter? I went mainly out of curiosity (...and to travel the Yangtze prior to the completion of the Three Gorges Dam).
'Twas wonderful. The stunning scenery, the gracious people, the dazzling past, and the present too. Did the obligatory tourist-stuff in Xi'an, Beijing, and elsewhere, but did plenty of hiking and biking and roughing it, too.
Second time was kinda the tail end of a (wondrous!) train journey from St Petersburg to Beijing...with plenty of detours along the way.
And this past summer I went as far as Lhasa....which as you might imagine was amazing in the extreme.
I've kinda got this thing for people, period, and the spectacular corners of the planet they inhabit. We're taught to be distrustful, and we're taught to dread the worst...but the worst so seldom happens; the world is full of good.
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Edited by - malolo on 09/22/2007 11:07:00
Nah nah nah nah nah.
That was a lie. (Wish it was so!)
Actually I wanted avoid the big-box middle-man and get my goods from the source! Ha!
I'm sorry. A case of the rainy-day Sillies, I'm afraid. Truth of the matter? I went mainly out of curiosity (...and to travel the Yangtze prior to the completion of the Three Gorges Dam).
'Twas wonderful. The stunning scenery, the gracious people, the dazzling past, and the present too. Did the obligatory tourist-stuff in Xi'an, Beijing, and elsewhere, but did plenty of hiking and biking and roughing it, too.
Second time was kinda the tail end of a (wondrous!) train journey from St Petersburg to Beijing...with plenty of detours along the way.
And this past summer I went as far as Lhasa....which as you might imagine was amazing in the extreme.
I've kinda got this thing for people, period, and the spectacular corners of the planet they inhabit. We're taught to be distrustful, and we're taught to dread the worst...but the worst so seldom happens; the world is full of good.
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Edited by - malolo on 09/22/2007 11:07:00