Just made in to Kunming. I'm almost ready to close the door on my time in Yunnan province, but before I leave, I thought I'd relate one more amusing story about our happenings in Dali. We were sitting at Stella's, our adopted restaurant in Dali, on the porch having a Pizza. With me were Shiran, a recent arrival to China, fresh from Laos, Hadar, with whom I had been travelling since Lijiang and Shannon, a Canadian whom I had met in Lijiang and also joined up with in Dali. We were enjoying a nice evening, winding down from the bicycle trip we had taken earlier (the one from the previous post). Out of nowhere, a Chinese guy who looked to be around his 30s with glasses and a moustache accompanied by a much younger lady walked
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