A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog
Xuzhou Travel Journal 1: Dalian Airport
(Originally written between 6 and 7 PM, Dalian, yesterday)
So I get a couple days reprieve in Xuzhou, as I’ve mentioned before. It’s about 6 PM now, a small child just waved at me, and the flight leaves at 8:40. The sound of the airport (and my fatigue) is quite distracting. [...]
There are two things that I miss the most about home right now, in terms of living conditions. The first being the ability to flush used toilet paper (as opposed to stashing it in the trashcan (lidless) next to the toilet) and the second being freedom of speech. Hopefully not having to explain the logistics [...]
Illness
I just had the hottest bowl of noodles I’ve ever eaten in my life. I mean, it was so hot it flicked my fight or fight response wherein I actually wandered away from the restaurant in a daze after paying – the other guys just sorta watched me go in confusion “Where you goin’ man?” [...]
(from an earlier conversation)
Me:
There are puppy markets
people show up with baskets of puppies
and others come and buy them by the armload
Will:
AW
wait
what do they do with them
Me:
I don’t know.
I took this one last night – a stitched together panorama… turned out a bit incomplete, but still, a neat tool.
I went to sleep around 9 PM last night fairly jetlagged and run down. 6 hours later, its 3 AM and I’m mostly up. I’m beginning to remember how heat messes with my usual functions.
My roommate and I went out to buy some toilet paper and bottled water. On the way, we grabbed some ice cream out of a freezer in the store we stumbled upon. I grabbed a thing that appeared to be brown, and thus maybe chocolate (hard to tell when the packaging is entirely in Chinese).
It [...]
Jet lag be damned, I’m here to explore.
My roommate turns out to be this oddball of a fellow from New Zealand, the kind of guy who travels for the sake of adventure and has a habit of getting himself in trouble. For god’s sake, he’s had to call his Embassy twice, and once after getting [...]
(Written today @ 11:41 AM, shortly after arriving in Dalian airport while waiting for another School arrival)
Getting down to business now. The waiting in Seoul was rather disorienting as some might have guessed from my last two entries. Sleeping across a row of hard, wooden seats has a way of getting under your skin, as [...]