For a while there, my camera would only take photos like this one. It seems to’ve fixed itself now.
Anyway… There’s a nice site here which lists Bay Area hikes that are transit accessible. There are lots! The above garbled photo is from the Marin Headllands, basically right on the other side of the Golden Gate.
This is a poorly-framed photo, thanks to my new camera phone having a totally unmotivated ‘widescreen’ mode. Nonetheless, behold: A deep-fried artichoke filled with shrimp cocktail.
Pretty good! Although, I always thought that the point of ‘a la juive’ was that you could eat all of the leaves, which was not quite true with this one.
Courtesy of Woodhouse Fish Company on Fillmore in San Francisco. They also had excellent Ipswich clams, though I’m unclear on why there aren’t equivalent West Coast options. It feels a bit silly to eat seafood on the West coast that was flown in from the East.
OK, that last post was mostly a setup for this one. After a day of climbing we reached the top of a peak and discovered this guy:
He was in the middle of some cross-country bike trip and decided that he should climb Huangshan on the way, and was nervous that someone would steal his bike while he was climbing. So, he carried his bike with him on his climb.
Finally unpacking, I dug out my real camera and discovered that I did, in fact, carry it around for one day of the trip. So here’s a big dump of landscape photos I took while hiking around Huangshan (which is, confusingly, a different place from Huashan.)
- wifi (mostly)
- wikipedia (mostly blocked but works in Beijing)
- facebook (blocked)
- twitter (blocked)
- youtube (blocked)
- carpet shampooers (this is more of a problem than you would imagine.)
- toilet paper in public bathrooms
- air that I can breath
Today’s tour included two obligatory shopping stops. The last is at a factory that manufactures silk quilts. I was afraid that there would be a long line of teenage girls unravelling the cocoons, so I heaved a huge sigh of relief when the automatic unravelling machine came into view.
