Hello,
I thought there was a problem with the internet when I was trying to post but went with it anyway. Then the next day I saw what I typed wasn't posted or in the drafts. gone away somewhere i guess. that's okay, but for some reason i can't type again what i typed before because it feels staged.
so a quick summary that will likely turn into its own post:
knew i could count on you, ryan! sorry amy, should have counted you in on the short list. thanks laurie, i don't think you're a cheater. just waiting for jasmine now...
really liked kaikoura. my knee not so much. after saturdays little jaunt (10k run) through the bush in Sydney with Jose my right knee was doing some pretty weird things. then the walk around the peninsula in kaikoura secured my thought that going down was bad. only to go 1602 meters (5,250 ft) up to the top of Mt. Fyffe and then 1602 meters (5,250 ft) back down to the bottom. further confirming that going down is bad.
it is just plain weird to be in Nelson again. Kaikoura was a new place for me but it feels like too many ghosts are here in Nelson. i walked into a grocery store tonight to look at some of the pricing of the food for work and realized i was in this grocery store before. when i was more hungry, in grubbier clothes, and not able to buy so much. i drive by the bridge that we walked over to meet katja, pauline and hayley at the bar. or see the hostel where Thomas and i had a half can size of rice pudding because the grocery stores were closed for some holiday. actually he had food, and i had the half can size of rice pudding for dinner but a full bag of salt, olive oil, and butter which made me think i had plenty of food to eat. whenever you hear someone say, "this is just a taste, i'm traveling to so many places to see where it is that i want to go back." kind of a specific thing to hear but I have heard it so much. tell them, "no, don't come back, go somewhere new."
the only exception to the above rule is italy. everyone should go back to italy as much as possible.
crazy day tomorrow: early flight to Auckland, some meetings during the day (world's best hot chocolate which by some amazing weird chance is one block away from one of my meetings), over night flight to Hong Kong, flight to Beijing, then drive 5 hours to somewhere. Don't think it is actually in the region of Mongolia because 5 hours drive time in China doesn't really get you that far. So either I'm not going to Mongolia and just nearby it, or the drive will be much longer than 5 hours. If it were any other country I would put my money on the first one, but since we're talking about China, i think we're at 50/50 here.
28 days down, 4 more to go. looking forward to going home again.
your friend,
chad
Monday, April 05, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
14 hours
Hello,
Yes! This thing still works. Now normally this would not work in China but thanks to the ol' remote desktop it thinks I'm over in California. That is definitely a hole in China's tight web of security.
I've decided the main reason why I like flying. it forces you to spend long hours of time with yourself. take-off, talking with the guy next to me that looks and sounds like one of the doctors from MASH, and settling myself into the nest of blanket, snacks, pillow, bottle of water, laptop, kindle, ipod, and more wires then are needed all takes about an hour. Then you have to come up with things to do for the next 13.
One netflix film killed off the partially charged laptop, a spacious but inconveniently placed seat on the plane canceled out the chance to really get into any of the six films but an attempt was made, and sleep always erases a few here and there.
But in the end I have time to think. and I think about how I need to make more time to think. lay on a blanket in a park and think, find someone with a giant trampoline and lay on it and think. for some reason i always picture clouds along with this thinking. and i see in my mind all the people i need to contact to say hi or the goals that need to be pursued - how am i going to make egyptian food for jamie? how do i get enough addresses to hand write letters to? why are the italian lessons going so slow? what would i write about on the old travel blog and there's only two people that read it anyway?
then, with enough hours come the answers. just use epicurious, buy the stuff and make it, people eat in egypt everyday, they must make something. i have a few addresses, that's all the start I need. it only goes slow when i don't listen to them. write something, i have never known what to write, ever. just start and try not to over think it.
(to ryan and jasmine)
your friend,
chad
Yes! This thing still works. Now normally this would not work in China but thanks to the ol' remote desktop it thinks I'm over in California. That is definitely a hole in China's tight web of security.
I've decided the main reason why I like flying. it forces you to spend long hours of time with yourself. take-off, talking with the guy next to me that looks and sounds like one of the doctors from MASH, and settling myself into the nest of blanket, snacks, pillow, bottle of water, laptop, kindle, ipod, and more wires then are needed all takes about an hour. Then you have to come up with things to do for the next 13.
One netflix film killed off the partially charged laptop, a spacious but inconveniently placed seat on the plane canceled out the chance to really get into any of the six films but an attempt was made, and sleep always erases a few here and there.
But in the end I have time to think. and I think about how I need to make more time to think. lay on a blanket in a park and think, find someone with a giant trampoline and lay on it and think. for some reason i always picture clouds along with this thinking. and i see in my mind all the people i need to contact to say hi or the goals that need to be pursued - how am i going to make egyptian food for jamie? how do i get enough addresses to hand write letters to? why are the italian lessons going so slow? what would i write about on the old travel blog and there's only two people that read it anyway?
then, with enough hours come the answers. just use epicurious, buy the stuff and make it, people eat in egypt everyday, they must make something. i have a few addresses, that's all the start I need. it only goes slow when i don't listen to them. write something, i have never known what to write, ever. just start and try not to over think it.
(to ryan and jasmine)
your friend,
chad
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