93. He pencils in the only thing I can understand among the Chinese characters. He smiles and points to the man with a long grey beard and arching back behind me. I smile. He’s predicting that I’ll live until I’m old, just like that man. Good. He continues. I’ve got my left hand out, palm [...]
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Vomit and Cigarettes: A Ride on a Chinese Sleeper Bus
Posted on 08 March 2012.
View from the road to Dali from Jinghong The vomiting began just after we pulled out of the Jinghong bus station. We hadn’t even left the city limits and the woman behind me had already filled three plastic bags. We were on the sleeper bus to Dali in northwestern Yunnan Province, and I knew this [...]
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Night train to Kunming
Posted on 29 January 2012.
Our compartment is less than half full. But it still smells. The closest thing I can compare it to is the smell of 100 wet dogs. Add to that, the constant stream of cheap, most-likely fake cigarette smoke drifting in from the vestibule. Think body odor, unclean toilets, and spoiled food. Now we are getting [...]
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Arrival in Macau
Posted on 10 January 2012.
A week prior, we had checked the Chinese calendar for an auspicious date to travel. The first of January looked good. We had already been in Hong Kong for about two weeks and were anxious to move on. We set a plan. Watch the fireworks from between high-rises halfway up the Peak on New Year’s [...]
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Cities
Posted on 25 June 2010.
By Stephen Bugno The Silk Road City of Bukhara lies along the Soviet-made railway in Uzbekistan I’m back on the train, but my mind is not completely there. I’ve been sick, over-conversed, without sleep, under-worked, and walked all over the ancient city situated on trading routes even more ancient. But now I can’t walk [...]
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