Things I Love: Part Two

Things I love from China, Russia, Everywhere we've been, and Japan. No further comments necessary.

Guess Where I Am Now!

Siberia Is HUGE.

Woah! Three days and four nights on a train is a long time, but it never felt boring or even cramped, which is surprising because it was pretty cramped.

Lake Baikal Is Huge!

I don't know about you, but I'd never heard of Lake Baikal before a few months ago when I started planning to take a train from Beijing to Russia. Apparently, though, it is by far the largest body of unfrozen freshwater in the world. Seriously, by far. You could fit all five Great Lakes in it with room to spare. And, you can drink it, no problem. It's really tasty.

Some Things I Love About Japan and China

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Hello from China... I mean, from Mongolia!

Censorship in China is no joke. I was only able to get on Blogger once in Beijing, and I sent myself the e-mail of what I'd written in case it didn't post properly. I'm glad I did, because about a week later I get to Mongolia to find that the post I'd posted did not, in fact, post! So here is what I wrote from Beijing a week ago:

Hi Brigadiers!
I'm coming to you from Beijing, China, and what a place it is! It's a massive city, with some amazing buildings and the largest public square in the world, which you may have heard of. It's also go some crazy skies, mainly in that the sky fluctuates from dust storm of the post-apocolypse to clear blue of a beautiful dream.



But it's mostly like this.

Vietnam Has Come And Gone. A Message From Tokyo (Updated with Photos)

Time flies when you`re in Vietnam. I LOVE that country, and I can`t believe that we`re already through with our trip there. The people are absurdly nice, the food is amazing, and the weather is stinking hot. I`m now in Tokyo, Japan and have yet to get a good feel for it, but I`ll get to that in a moment. First, some notes about the trip so far.