1. Jenny driving a little 125cc motorcycle up undulating gravel hills around Yangshuo with Brett on the back, bent knees sticking way out to the sides, learning to use the BACK brake when cows pass. Girls don't drive motorcycles around here...they drive scooters.
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Hiking the “Dragon Backbone” rice fields for two days from Ping'an to Dazhi with our new friend, Mayte, a confident Mexican gal who walks IN the busy streets, is not afraid to drink the water, and who spent an entire weekend caring for us, cooking us breakfast, planning our rice field adventure, and getting us safely back to the train station. We were lucky on our hike. The weather was cool, the paddies were still young water-filled reflections, the sky was filled with multicolored dragonflies, and we ended it with a local cuisine of homemade rice liquor, rice-stuffed bamboo and sauteed water spinach.
Hiking the “Dragon Backbone” rice fields for two days from Ping'an to Dazhi with our new friend, Mayte, a confident Mexican gal who walks IN the busy streets, is not afraid to drink the water, and who spent an entire weekend caring for us, cooking us breakfast, planning our rice field adventure, and getting us safely back to the train station. We were lucky on our hike. The weather was cool, the paddies were still young water-filled reflections, the sky was filled with multicolored dragonflies, and we ended it with a local cuisine of homemade rice liquor, rice-stuffed bamboo and sauteed water spinach. 3.
Meeting Tripper and Jenny. Their hospitality and especially their genuine interest in us made us love Yangshuo that much more. Brett and Tripper both share a love of fine beer, a tall lean build, and hand and shoe size (yes, they compared!) Best wishes on the business and with baby #2. Hope to see you again in the future.
Meeting Tripper and Jenny. Their hospitality and especially their genuine interest in us made us love Yangshuo that much more. Brett and Tripper both share a love of fine beer, a tall lean build, and hand and shoe size (yes, they compared!) Best wishes on the business and with baby #2. Hope to see you again in the future.4. The students of Zhouyue English School. The opportunity to exchange ideas and feelings; to break down barriers. And winning my award for the best “evaluator” by the students!
Sights: Beautiful, verdant, but much trash everywhere. Only two other Americans spotted during our first three weeks.
Sounds: “Hello! American!”, horns honking incessantly, excavating and hammering, cell phones
Smells: Used the addage “breath through your mouth” a lot
Tastes: Salty
Touch: Eyes were itching constantly from the pollution, the entire month
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