I’ve been a vegetarian for 27 years now. I gave up meat for health reasons, not for ethical reasons. I don’t judge people who eat meat, I don’t try to convert people to a meat free diet, I have cooked meat for my dinner guests. However, since becoming a vegetarian I have grown CONSIDERABLY more…
We are so fortified by people’s interest and enthusiasm. It seriously has such an enormous impact on the quality of our day and how many mIles we can walk. Today we were stopped on the street several times by people who either pulled their cars over or who turned their car around on the highway…
A while ago, Doug and I made a decision. We would give out postcards freely to people we met on the street but when we were in restaurants, we would not hand out postcards until after we had paid the bill. We were getting quite a few meals for free and herein lies our problem….
We had to run some errands this morning. We picked up a box of supplies (more postcards and other items) that we had mailed to ourselves. Thanks Luxi! Next we had to find an ATM that was dispensing cash (4 different places before we finally got lucky). We didn’t start walking until noon. It was…
We decided that this walking a sleeping, walking and sleeping thing was running us down so when we saw a big sign with pictures of waterfalls, we had to check it out. Before we knew it, a van had stopped and we hopped in and away we went. The entrance fee was a bit pricey-…
We put in our 18 miles, walked into a town and before we could even ask, a woman met us on the street and invited us into her hotel. That was #1. #2- There is no cold water at this hotel. Only water that is so scalding hot that you could cook Ramen noodles in…
Doug and I were a little miffed that our hotel room cost 60 Kuai ($9.50). We’ve had much nicer and cleaner for 30 kuai. This room had 2 cigarette butts in the bathroom and a peach pit in the hallway. But you know what? It all works out because we just had a really nice…
We were enjoying some really delicious roadside fried potatoes when four or five cops told us to follow them. Now we are at the police station waiting for them to register our presence in the town of Danfeng. Of course this means we have to wait for the cop who knows a few words of…
Today, as I was walking up a particularly long and steep road, an elderly woman in an ethnic head scarf stopped me. “Canadian?”, she asked me in accented but understandable English, smiling broadly. “Mei guo ren” (American) I answered. “Oh” she said, her face falling Iike a souffle.
We walked 22 1/2 miles today and had beautiful cool weather for all of it. It never got above 64 degrees and while it was predicted that there was going to be rain we didn’t get more than a sprinkle for just a few minutes. We left our hotel at 7:00 am and thought we’d…
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