Another fine installment in the adventure that is your life I suppose I'll comment, as I always enjoy a good comment now and then and us being such like souls it would do you no harm.
I'm really left wordless yet again, how you can be so delibrate and to the point yet still flow easily and fluidly like the Mighty Rhine River (yes I am in Germany right now (and yes the Z and Y are switched which makes typing incredibally awkward)) leaves me envious with every re-reading. In perusing this latest installment, it deems my prose pithyless, pathetic, pretentious and O So prehensile (I ran out of p's and I'm tired). Keep up the fine, fine work.
That is all.
Absolutel Incredible While reading, I wanted to match your with an equally engaging comment, but now find myself at a loss for words. I truly and utterly am blown away my good friend. It was not unlike reading a Bill Bryson, or David Sedaris, or David Rakoff (name drop? me? never.). Without a doubt sensational. I commend you on another fine essay/story and recommend you send this to a fine publishing house to reap the rewards you so definitely deserve.
June 27, 2007 Hi Peter,
I spoke to Anne yesterday wishing her a happy birthday. She gave me the link to your blog.
You are truly seeing some amazing things.
Take care you two.
Chris
watch out! Kaelyn... if Peter said "step back - just a little further" in taking your photo on the edge of a cliff... don't do it! Stay on the concrete! Love to you both! Take care...
I was in chengdu for 5 weeks during november. Myself and other students from Brooks Institute of Photography traveled around Sichuan Province working on a project. I was doing some research about chengdu on google and your blog came up. I myself also stayed at the Loft. I was their for 3 weeks!!!! Hope you are having a great time. I dont log in to this site, so you can email me if you want to at Lizeth.Soriano@my.brooks.edu
Enjoying YOUR travels! We particularly enjoy your encounters with the Chinese people. We have several good Chinese friends after having gone to China on an Elderhostel about ten years ago. We were at Colorado College together and continue our long and satisfying friendship. Great that you are taking advantage of this great opportunity. We will tag along after you!
Way to go Trojan Hi...just back from a visit with grandma Brandy and grandpa John in Tubac and enjoying "blogs" from grandson... like I knew what a "blog" was, right? We are a little old for this nonsense (computers) but I finally figured it out and even guessed that you might be the Trojan (did she tell me that?) and I LOVED reading about your first day in your new home. I'm the Kappa who traveled the world before settling down in the 60s...so relish your tales. Keep it up! Claire
What's going on here? Who are you? Is pete paying you to write this for him? If so, you're doin a heck of a job out there brownie. You have his mannerisms exactly. Well done, truly, well done.
Eh.. It was just a typo, should say,"I was hustled around by a ticket seller, trying to get me on a bus to Changsha, a large city just five hours away from Zhangjiajie." Noted and changed. Now what does this have anything to do with speaking English? They sure weren't, and I wasn't either.
eh? "I was hustled around by a ticket seller, trying to get me on a bus to Changsha, a large city just five hours away from Changsha."
Excuse me?
So they don't generally speak English in China. What a surprise!
Have you ever tried to buy a ticket in the US only speaking Mandarin?
climbing with xclimber -weird coincidence! thats awesome you went climbing. Its quite a challenge. Im guessing u went to the wine bottle mountain. Hope u had a good day. I am going to china this easter to join a climbing course with xclimber as they offered me free accomodation with the course (its a month long arggh). im well excitied, but the muscles in my fingers arent! good luck with your travels!
Your stories are really interesting, I was perplexed to what this Mati could be too, I never heard it being called that! I cant believe u got a motorbike all the way from guilin to yangshuo, thats a 1 hour and a half journey, a good experience though! Ps if u like a challenge go rock climbing in yangshuo, its awesome. I went with a shop called xclimber but shop around for the best deal :)
LAWRENCE
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terrifying
very cool image connects somehow to the past and reminds me of LOTR