CHINA

3 Months In China, March-June 2008

China--West to Buerjin

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Utah --> Xinjiang

CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [34]

Xinjiang?  Take Utah, make it as big as Alaska, wrinkle it up some, pull its bottom down below sea level, make its mountains a mile taller.  Then, for good measure, put in it a desert as big as--Utah itself.


First Words

CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [28]

Do you remember your first human touch?  Your first steps?  Your first words? Alas, these memories are irretrievable to us all. But the sensation can still be attained later in life.  The first time you say something to a stranger in a foreign language ... Read more >


Verticality in Xinjiang

CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [19]

There is no English map of Xinjiang.  Not even Pinyin.  Only Chinese.  But I can read the elevation numbers: four thousand, five thousand, six thousand, seven thousand.  Not bad, thinks a mind accustomed to elevation in feet.  But that mountain is not seven ... Read more >


Immensity

CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [19]

The immensity of China's West is as the Immensity of Space: it can be witnessed, but not comprehended.


Mount Whitney

CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [16]

If you pushed Mount Whitney out of an airplane over the mountains here, you might not be able to find Her again.


Kernfucious Say:

CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [15]

Kernfucious Say: If you know what it is you seek, you needn't leave home.


Bicycle Parking Fee

CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [16]

Is it wrong of me to pretend I don't know there is a fee for bicycle parking, shrugging my shoulders until they give up asking?  I think it is wrong to charge a bicycle parking fee. There are very few Absolutes in Life, but that Bicycling is the Godliest ... Read more >


Which Is Better--America or China?

CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [14]

Hongwei asked me straight, "Which is better--America or China? I'm sure almost all Americans would say America is better.  And so would many Chinese.  After all, they are willing to get locked into containers on cross-Pacific voyages of misery ... Read more >


Bigger Than The Pope

CHINA | Friday, 16 May 2008 | Views [62]

Strangers ask to have their pictures taken with me.  I wonder what they tell people when they show them the photos.  "Here I am with a guy I saw in the Park." I once knew a guy who got free meals and bus tickets all over Latin America, because ... Read more >


Kernfucios Say: Touring Vs. Travelling

CHINA | Friday, 16 May 2008 | Views [55]

Kernfucious Say: Tourists return Home; travellers still seek It.


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