Thanks for reading! Glad to hear you enjoyed your retreat. 7-10 hours a day sounds like a lot of work, but glad to know it makes you feel better! Tell the rest of the fam' we say hi. Love, Gabe and Steph
Hi Gabe and Stephanie, I love catching up with you and seeing your photos.
Hutch and I just did a 12 day chigong retreat, and I am feeling like I am turning around this prognosis!
Doing chigong for abut 7-10 hours a day here at home now, as that is what it takes...It is a total paradigm shift.
Love to you both, and keep up the good work- exploring the world! Love, Nancy
Karst A karst is an area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns. Karst topography usually forms in regions of plentiful rainfall where bedrock consists of carbonate-rich rock, such as limestone, gypsum, or dolomite, that is easily dissolved. Surface streams are usually absent from karst topography. A karst landscape has sinkholes, sinking streams, caves, and springs. Geologists have adopted karst as the term for all such terrain.
Be Safe Dear Gabe and Steph,
We have really been enjoying your adventures as you narrate them for us. We hope you keep them coming without jeapordizing your time for touring and relaxing. Watch out for the twisted ankles, etc. and be safe.
Love,
Uncle Tom and Aunt Janet
bummer I had 21 days in the pool ( my bet on Booty coming home for dinner ) but it looks like you are going to make it longer. My next choice was 63 days. Keep having fun !!! Mom and I are just here "living the dream" one day at a time.
I love that you joined in a spontaneous eating contest of something you've never eaten before. Cracks me up! Very brave... Boots must be proud of you :-)
Your first two weeks Gabe and Stephanie - great to hear about your adventures. The bus ride reminded me of my trip to the Hill Stations in south India. Thrilling to be up front by the driver and looking down the steep ravine at the edge. Rules of the road - those climbing have right of way on the one lane parts. Hope you both are mending and healing fast so the adventure can continue. Love and traveling mercies.
National Day The local paper had an article on page 3. Here are a few interesting snippets:
"China's leaders marked their nation's 60th anniversary of communist rule yesterday with a precision display of military bravado that included, improbably, a female militia unit toting submachine guns and attired in red skirts and white jackboots, and a fleet of floats with representations of a giant fish and Mount Everest."
"The celebration of the founding of the People's Republic of China was immense, powerful and flawless, down to the cystalline skies which, just a day earlier, had been laden with smog."
Obviously, the story is strictly about Beijing. No report from Chengdu. I guess they left that to you.
Matt Potterton
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whoa there
Is that your hotel room falling into the lake there in that first picture?