Dali – 360 by bike

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015

大理: Hippy China, Freedom, and Tall Mountains

Men with long hair and flowing pants drift by. Women dance alone to bands that play bluegrass, twirling in long skirts with their arms outstretched in a way I haven’t see since Eugene. The workday starts around noon, but that’s no strict rule. 大理(Dali, Yunnan) is one of those places that operates in parallel with … Continue reading 大理: Hippy China, Freedom, and Tall Mountains

February 1, 2015January 28, 2015

Best Laid Plans

My camera, ~1000 pictures, and two near-full notebooks are gone, with small and diminishing hope of return. They were in a red drysack that got lifted from my backpack somewhere along the road from Kunming （昆明） to Dali（大理). The camera can be replaced with a month’s work, but the memories, the posts planned, and the … Continue reading Best Laid Plans