Logging bus time

Well, I've found internet, but the connection appears to be pretty poor, so this will be a short post in case it never makes it.

I'm spending about a week and a half traveling around Yunnan province, which is in southwestern China -- east of Tibet, south of Sichuan, and north of Vietnam/Laos/Myanmar. There's been some amazing scenery, and even Kunming, the largest city, is markedly different from Shanghai -- more relaxed, less honking, less construction and therefore better air, and not quite as dense (although the city is still 2.5million people, plus 2.5M again in the suburbs).

But never mind the city -- I've been logging some serious highway time getting shuttled from city to sights to city. This is helped by the fact that buses can only go about 60km an hour on the highways, so that a 330km trip today took us about 5 hours. This is normal.

Anyway, I deemed yesterday Rural Domesticated Animal Day. On a 40-min drive between two scenic points, I counted no fewer than 7 horses/donkeys, 27 oxen (including a baby with parents), and about 6 dozen goats, plus approximately one herding dog per dozen goats.

Also, I ate peacock for the first time. It was better in kebab form than in the ground-meat stirfry dish.

That's all I've got for now. With any luck, I'll be able to get this post up and another sometime before the week is out.