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bye bye beijing
after nearly two months of language classes and regular internet access, i've finally left beijing. it was a great place to be for two months, and for the first time in the past year i was able to establish a quasi-life, complete with a quasi-routine and quasi-friends. and poof, now it's gone. bye-bye favorite dumpling store, bye-bye yellow bicycle. well, i'll be back in july, and it looks like edward middleton tilghman will be there to meet me. trouble.
i took these pictures at the forbidden city on my last day in beijing. the first picture is of, well, a bathroom sign. the second is a great example of chinese efficiency with words, and the last is of some important foreign official that i don't recognize. i have 50 yuan with your name on it if you can tell me who he is. he must be pretty important, because they shut down the entire west half of the palace to let him go through unmolested by the other tourists.
where next? right now i'm on a sleeper train from lanzhou to jiayuguan, listening to a remarkable chorus of snorers. from jiayuguan i continue to up the silk route to urumqi, then on to yunan, tibet, sichuan, and some other undetermined destinations. any recommendations?
Posted by senorjosh at May 14, 2004 09:29 AM
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Yo, Seņor! Just checked my "Favorites" for NY Mets site and saw your journals, flagged many moons ago when you were a mere travel stripling filing from Cape Verde. Good to see and read that you are thriving on Watson's nickel! What a project, journey, adventure. We'll catch up over a tamarindo. Until then, Godspeed.
Nicolas
Posted by: Nick at May 17, 2004 03:14 AM
hola joshue,
I don't have travel suggestions (aside from the obvious...Oakland CA 94618)
but i do have a request: I don't know the area(s) in which you are travelling now AT ALL - will you post up a map so we can see your route and stuff?
gracias :)
love
lily
Posted by: Lily at May 17, 2004 04:25 PM
hola nicolas, is that a coloradan tamarindo? lily, hi! i'll try to do a map, of sorts, but it may take a little while. kashgar, my right now, is on the border with kazakh[and a bunch of other countries ending with]istan, way up in the northwest of china...
Posted by: josh at May 18, 2004 02:11 PM
sural, a girl doing a watson project on emergency medicine, recently blogged a few of her thoughts on leaving places and friends. the entry bears an uncanny resemblance to something i wrote in my journal not too long ago, except that it's legible and much more eloquent:
http://sirensandlights.org/index.php?p=114
Posted by: josh at May 26, 2004 04:41 PM
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js1661.htm
I did a little snooping and found out that John B. Taylor, Under Secretary of the
Treasury for International Affairs, visited Beijing, China on May 11th. I don't know when you officially left, but that was 3 days before this post. He doesn't look at all like the dude in the picture, though --http://usembassy.state.gov/posts/rp1/wwwhtfc1.html -- but maybe it's one of his underlings?
Posted by: Elise at May 31, 2004 11:04 PM
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