Stranded!

Someone help the stranded Farang! I could tell by the obnoxious smell that our ride was up. That was OK with me. The nightbus we were traveling on just wasn’t that comfortable anyway. It was full, the AC barely worked, and it was painfully slow. I amused myself by talking about tortured souls with the [...]

Yunnan to Sichuan

About 3 hours into the bus ride, I knew it was going to be a long one. The bumpy and rutted road was winding through the mountains madly and we doubled back so many times that I was starting to think we had made no progress at all. The bus was fairly new, but unfortunately [...]

Thank you whoever you are

I was running down a narrow alley, chasing a crazed Chinese woman in her 40s. She had my bus ticket to Dali in her hand and she had no intentions of stopping. We were literally pushing street vendors out of the way and my heart was pounding, I could barely keep up with her! She [...]

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