A brief update

Well, I live in Chinatown now. I signed a lease for one year and I will live here while I try to build MoreThanSalad into something substantial and awesome.

The next trip is being planned. I'm going to China again, all new places this time. The trip will begin in late August and unlike the previous one, will have a date of return from the outset. I'm estimating 4-6 weeks. The plan, which will be subject to change of course, is to begin in Beijing and see some things in that neighborhood, then to fly to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan. I was there before; that's where I got sick and needed to go back to Hong Kong early to deal with a horrid upper respiratory infection. So I won't spend much time there, just hop on a bus or train and make my way to Dali and Lijiang, two cities in Northern Yunnan I really wanted to see last time and just didn't. So I'll be picking up where I left off so to speak. I'll then head overland towards Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, making various stops of interest on the way. Depending on how long it takes me to get that far, I'm going to Xinjiang, the northwestern most province of China. There's just a whole lot of amazing desert, dusty old towns, and old Central Asian and Silk Road history in the region. It's rather crammed together, but not ridiculously so. At least it's all in the same country.

Anyway, that is the next trip I'm planning and when I go I will be writing about it here. Til then...