Thursday, July 11, 2013

Trip notes

* women sweep the parking lots wearing high heels / platform shoes

* Chinese tourists trudge into the woods to see the Michael Jackson monkeys wearing slippers or heels.

* there are 2 types of small towns around here: quaint wooden villages and not-quaint commercial centers

* everyone eats rice noodles for breakfast

* pigs get walked along the road in the morning. If you hit a pig with your car, you pay for the pig

* beer only comes in the 2% or 3% variety. Pot is a medicinal plant that grows by the side of the road.

* Chinese have an extraordinary ability to sit on tiny 8" stools to eat all their meals

* you never know when you'll spot a camel. Or a water buffalo.

* Selecting a restaurant is done by sauntering into the kitchen and inspecting the available foods. You might even get to select the fish to kill.

* on this side of the village : wooden village; other side: cement factory compound that looks like Oz's Tower from a distance.

* the government will plop down high rise living right next to sleepy village.

* I guess deodorant isn't a thing here.

* no one swims in the river.

* real haystacks: not machine-rolled bales


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