China, 2004

Just got back from a grueling trip to China. Grueling that is, for a vacation, and one in which we stayed at 4 star hotels. But the main part of the vacation was treking by bus through Xinjiang and western China, where the roads are so bad that by the time the bus hit 60kph I felt like I was being constantly bludgeoned in the head by my seat cushion.

By the way, blogspot was not accessible behind the great firewall of china. Nevertheless, there were internet cafes every stop of the way, full of Chinese gamers smoking, h@ck1ng, and 0wning.