List: Asia Memories

I wrote this list while the memories were still fresh. That's the problem with experiences--if you (or specifically, if I) don't write them down immediately, everything fades into a dull grey from which significance disappears

- wax apples
- Asian pancakes filled with cabbage & thousand island dressing
- vending machines
- Ding Tai Feng
- Jendow Veggie Buffet
- scooters
- new highrises in shenzhen; old China in the underwear lines
- arcades
- Home Inn (lodging suites)
- Guangzhou shopping
- fish skins, vinegar, peanuts, chives
- Xinshijie Shopping Centre
- Wuhan busses
- Songshuyu
- Muguaxueha
- foot baths & massages
- Zhou Hei Ya (duck wings)
- sleepy Kunming
- dinner, show, & pissy dancers
- second cousin's Ford
- fungi hotpot (shrooms?)
- XiaoWang in the airport
- Lijiang old town
- fear/anxiety/etc.
- Haba Village and bitterly cold in snow
- snowing in mountain passes
- dirty bus; 101 Dalmations bus seat covers
- Shangri-la not so Shangri-la
- [fake?] North Face gear
- fever
- sleeping bags need to be light and negative 17 degrees centigrade
- recovery in internet cafe
- oxygen bottles
- Haba Village, redux in lush green
- climbing crew: YiYue, XiaoYang
- beasts of burden
- XiaoJiuZi: guide extraordinaire
- FREEZING NIPPLES; SLEEPINESS; WANTING TO DIE
- summit above the clouds; accomplishment; surreality; reality
- sliding down mountain (do not try at home)
- taking five hours to descend on rocks
- freezing in sleeping bag
- Tibetan mountain dogs (2x white; 1x black)
- sore-everything
- angry drivers want to beat us up
- Shangri-la, redux
- delicious baozi for less than 1RMB
- yak hotpot
- Meili Xue Shan covered in clouds
- trekking, again to Upper/Lower Yubeng
- self-sacrificing teacher
- German dude
- more trekking
- fear of falling to my death off a cliff
- water buffalo crossing
- beautiful Yubeng River Gorge
- Beijing service (HeiDiLao hotpot)
- Silk Road requires better bargaining skillz
- The Egg is beautiful; The Bird's Nest is Ok
- Dartmouth Beer Pong prodigy
- old vs. new; poor vs. rich; fuck you
- art in Factory 768
- to do: Planet Earth while stoned

Not covered in this list: Shanghai + Korea