hard sleeper

ive always got such damn cold feet. and i even stole some hotel slippers to put in the inside of my shoes for some extra sole/soul. tonight the train to gansu province, things have changed since six years ago and now a computer spits out the still unintelligible tickets- i remember only cardboard chits that looked more like dominoes.

nice food, nice people, and a touch of the exotic still: cattle markets and desert silk road towns- unfortunately all the buddhist caves have been visited by muslims and had the faces of the buddhas scratched out. but still desert desert all around, and the camels(two humps)look more like lions.

and fellowship on the road is at an all time high, interesting people to share the fried rice and local wine with, makes it all the more worth while.

more as it happens
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