oxygen junkies

Despite taking Acetazolamide to hasten acclimatization. Acute Mountain Sickness still hit me. I had headaches, lightheadedness, loss of appetite, palpitations, and fast heart rate. An hour of oxygen helped relieve the symptoms.

Enduring the "Rocket to the Rooftop of the World"

May 15th 2010
At the Beginning "Wo Pu Tong." Means I don't understand (or something like that). My friend Yla often uttered this whenever it became too hard to understand what the locals were saying. Me? "I don't have a clue what he just said." The language barrier is so thick that it hindered us from maximizing our sojourn in Shanghai. First stop: Shanghai. This ... read more

Asia » China » Qinghai

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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