"As you will be my dog, your new name will be... Spot. Welcome to slavery""No thanks - I already had a wife"-- From Dusk Till Dawn"Do you love me, Fry?""Well, I love you as much as a man CAN love a woman"-- FuturamaWe've just spent a nice two days in Zhongdian, writing e-mails and reading books and pretty much doing nothing of interest whatsoever. It's been a nice change from the near constant death defying bus rides and small villages we've been in r...

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -- Friedrich NietzscheThis entry was going to be all about the bus journey from Litang to Xiancheng. I had it all worked out. As we had driven our rickety bus along tiny mountain roads in the late afternoon, sheer drop to one side and landslide prone mountain to the other, I was thinking about mortality, the surviv...