WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?— W H Davies I don't think I mentioned Miss Moon a fellow traveller we met during our adventure with the infamous Pink Lady. It was a brief encounter, we discovered she was from Philadelphia and was working in Japan. When we met she had “done” Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and was passing through Yangshuou for 24 hours before heading for Guilin to meet friends and head off for sights elsewhere in China. In 7 day hits she was on a whirlwind tour of all points south and east of Japan determined to tick every country off of her list; I imagine so she could look back and talk with some authority about those places when she got back to the States.
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