Liang ge mei nu. (Two beautiful women)
It also got really hot today, really fast. Until now, daytime temperatures have lingered at around 85. That is warm but in no way unbearable. This afternoon it got up to at least 95 and the humidity jumped too. I was DONE by 3:00. I simply wasn’t having it. Doug seemed to be doing OK. He even ate a green pea flavored popsicle.
We are talking about getting up at 5:00 am tomorrow and getting a few hours in before it gets so hot. I’ll be honest, just about every morning I’ve said to myself, ” I don’t think I can do this”. What I think I was really telling myself was,” I don’t think I want to do this”. It’s been challenging but in no way impossible. Our packs feel heavy, our feet hurt, we get tired but it’s always been manageable. This heat is another thing all together.
Doug did some calculating today. We are 43% through. I was hoping to be at 50% by Saturday.
We had a really nice lunch today made by these kind women. They gave us two bags of plums for the road. We gave one to a man who seemed to be homeless. He made me think of my great,great uncle because he was carrying a bed roll. It wasn’t strapped to his backpack. It was hung from a piece of bamboo.
Get Doug a rickshaw and take turns pulling each other. You pull down hill and he pulls up hill. Sound fair?
Sounds good to me but I’m not sure Doug will go for it. I’ll tell him we’ll flip a coin for it. Heads I win, tails he loses.