After nearly a year and a half of life not quite worth blogging about, I'm back in Beijing, and ready to start up again. I'll be updating the site weekly(ish) and I hope to keep things light, lively, and maybe even interesting.
So I just got back, two days ago or something like that, and I've been spending all my time getting situated, which basically means going to various offices and getting various receipts. The internet had to be paid for, the phone bill, and the notorious foreigner temporary household registration. I'm not swimming in stamped bits of paper. I needed a phone to. Not just wanted, needed. So I went to the second hand phone market (of course there's one) and got myself a phone. It didn't work. So I schlepped all the way back and yelled at him until he gave me a much nicer phone for an additional 10 dollars or so -- suggesting that I'd overpaid for my first piece of crap phone from the get-go. I guess you live and learn. Thats about it -- but look forward to such interesting subjects as: "living and working, working for a living" and "they might not pay me but I'll freelance anyway" coming up in the near future.
Until then--
Martin
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I first heard the phrase, "the road is the goal", in German (der veg ist da ziel) on a night bus speeding north towards Mongolia in July of 2005. When I asked a Swiss traveler what it meant, he told me that it referred to Camino de Santiago, the Way of St. James. Looking into it a bit more, I found the quote attributed to everybody from Buddha to Gandhi to Jung. Many people have probably said it over the years, so if I ascribe to the idea as a philosophy of travel, well, at least I'm in good company.
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