Extended!

I navigated the buses back to Xihuan, the Dali “new city” today and extended my Chinese visa at an amazing and painful cost of 760Yuan. (US$100) Ouch! The German girl in front of me paid 200Y….looks like I got the shaft for being an American. Again. The good news is that now I have another [...]

It’s here!

I almost broke my legs getting to the door fast enough. Standing there in the July sunshine, looking like an angel, was the FedEx woman with an envelope for me. I already knew what was inside, but I tore into it like a starving hyena. My Chinese visa is here! Occupying a whole page of [...]

Got it!

I almost broke my legs getting to the door fast enough… Standing there in the July sunshine like an angel was the FedEx woman with an envelope for me. I already knew what it was, but I tore into it like a starving hyena. It was my Chinese Visa! That was pretty much the last [...]