3 days, 2 buses, 31 hours, only 300 miles, 4 hours sitting in a field waiting to get through a check point, 1.5 hours to drive two miles through a construction site, 2 items lost, 1 flannery o'conner novel and 1 patagonia fleece, at least 1 argument with with the bus driver, more than 13000ft of elevation lost, 1000s of nomad tents, 100,000s of yaks, 100s of peaks taller than anything in the lower 48.
4 days, 4 hotels, 1rst migraine headache in 10 years, 1 episode of vomiting in a shared toilet, too many outdoor bathroom trips to remember, 2 lonely bottles of beer, 1 broken, but now fixed ipod, 0 headphones--packed away, 1 monk inviting me to his home--which i passed two days earlier on a horrific bus ride.
6 new friends, 1 more bus ride, 1 girls phone number, 3 old-new friends in a new town, 1 super posh hostel in chengdu, 1 above average chinese pizza for $6, 6 games of pool--all losing, 1 nights worth of great sleep. then today came and we shall see what happens.
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