Asia Trip: Day 172 - Xi’an 西安 => Lanzhou 兰州 (7/4/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Woke up so early, had brekkie and went to train station

  • SO MANY PEOPLE - HORDS

• Yelled “paidui” and felt so good 排队！

  • Heads turned, people obeyed and were in shock

• Took an eight hour hard seat train

  • We were packed in like sardines, I had an old guy talking shit to me the entire train ride, another one staring at me the whole time and another with his ass in my face for eight hours

• ARRIVED IN LANZHOU

• Took 5ever to find wifi, but got a cab to my place

• In the taxi, some guy was talking shit about me in Chinese and the driver laughed and said I understood. The guy was v uncomfortable and embarrased

• Took me a solid twenty minutes to try and find my hostel

  • It’s on the fifth floor of what looks like a condemned building down two back alleyways

• Slept horribly

  • No A/C, mouth was v dry and in the process of getting sick

Asia Trip: Day 173 - Lanzhou 兰州 (7/5/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Woke up and felt like shit (slept in until 11:30am)

  • Tired, sore, stuffed up, and sore throat

• Got vitamin C and jianbing

• Watched fury and then napped

• Looked, schemed and planned job searching for four hours

  • Made good progress

  • Really stoked on operations - just feels good

  • Dealing with all of the insecurities of going back to work, time spent traveling, and re-acclimating into normal life

• Got noodles and a splintering headache for dinner

• Watched Expendables 2, mediated and then passed out

晚安！

Asia Trip: Day 174 - Lanzhou 兰州 => Zhangye 张掖 (7/6/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Woke up at 6:30am to catch my train

  • SOFT SEAT IS SO MUCH BETTER

• Listened to Neil DeGrasse Tyson JR podcast and Michael Pollan JR podcast

• Got to Zhangye, crammed into a cab, and got to the hostel

  • Snagged some snacks and passed out until 8:00pm

I ate a bowl of noodles and a snickers for the whole day, had a massive fever, and a crippling headache. Not the best day, but the sleep helped so much.

IT AIN’T WHAT YOU GOT; IT’S WHAT YOU DO WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.

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IT’S NOT WHAT YOU DO, BUT HOW YOU DO IT.

Asia Trip: Day 175 - Zhangye 张掖 (7/7/19)

Daily Highlights:

• WOKE UP AND FELT WAY BETTER

• Watched the Expendables movies

  • So many good nugs - Wesley Snipes tax evasion and Dolph Lundgren chemistry at MIT

• Met Sophie - cool Aussie girl whose Chinese

  • We walked around then went to DANXIA :)

• DANXIA WAS SO GOD DAMNED COOL- felt like Mars

  • Got so many good shots, definitely don’t need three days here lol

  • Got a little rocked out - after four hours of looking at rocks, no matter how beautiful, they all start to look the same

  • On the drive back, Anthony - another Chinese Aussie guy - was getting so annoyed at this little girl laughing and playing loudly. He was glaring at her, complaining to the driver and even yelling at the family.

    • He’s just finished a meditation course and is about to do another Vipassana meditation course again and even did teacher training. Looks like this guy needs all the help he can get lol

晚安！

Asia Trip: Day 176 - Zhangye 张掖 (7/8/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Woke up and chilled the whole day

• Went to the local park

  • Did burpees

  • Meditated in the park

• Came back watched a movie and took a nap

• BOOKED A TICKET TO HOHHOT

• Met this British guy who teaches English in China

  • Had a really good chat

• Passed out!

Asia Trip: Day 176 - Zhangye 张掖 => Hohhot 呼和浩特 (7/8/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Woke up and chilled before the train came

• The quiet kid in the dorm room gave me watermelon, dragon fruit and chatted with his group of friends for about an hour

• Embarked on the eighteen hour train ride

  • Listened to the Jesse Itzler JR podcast, Macaulay Culkin JR podcast, and Alex Honnald JR podcast

  • Seemed to by very quickly

• Before the train, I bought a big cup o’ ramen and sausage, went full china

• Also I hawked and spit in front of a group of Chinese guys and they laughed so hard and lost it

• I also bought a tea setup (glass mug with a filter and tea)