http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan Hey Yah! Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:00:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry for lack of updates: Lets start back in early November: So i buy this Suzuki motorcycle from the Tahoe Sherpas....so the chain falls off the first day 7 km down a dirt road...so two days after that the electric goes out @ 9:00 a.m. Just as this happens ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/merry-christmas-from-cambodiaerrvietnam-actually-2.html Well my 5 day bike cruise turned into 8 & it was darned near impossible to give up that beautiful russian machine this morning. STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO on "The Greatest Thing I've Ever Done (plus hookers!)" http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/aliveand-exhilarated.html Hanoi is wonderful...a million motobikes...HOT HOT HOT! i'm talkin' 3 cold showers a day hot (this also applies to the girls on the motobikes). Next...off on my first MOTORCYCLE ride ever Saturday..i'm learning on a Russian Minsk 125cc wonderbike...lets hope it stays together on my 750 or so km trip to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/vietnam-now.html So Gerald, Ray & Dan headed out one morning on chinese mountain bikes, which are just like the american ones, except they suck. The day before, Gerald (a scotsman living in London) & i had biked from my new home town Yangshuo to Moon Hill where we got lost ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/a-bike-ride.html REMEMBER: CLICK ON PICS! So i met this businessman from Tehran, we'll call him Ray because later on i will be blogging about our tea time together in which we discussed many things, including the Mullahs in Iran. He is an amazing person and i will ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/picturepicturelonghairbeautiful5yuan.html (YES THIS POST IS FROM A TIME PERIOD BEFORE THE LAST ONE)..get used to it! So, after a beautiful & efficient train ride from Hong Kong through the New Territories one arrives at the border. Signs at places say things like "No turning around" and i queued under a sign ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/entering-mainland-china.html The first word i learned in chinese was xie xie, which means thank you. Chinese is actually a very simple language. There are no gender words, as in the French Le & La for feminine/masculine. There are no time specific words like Was, Is, or Will be (Which ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/xie-for-the-memories.html Tuesday, Oct 24th. "Orange is no longer my favorite color." -Overhead in Gate c-6 waiting area of Sea-Tac airport: a blue haired middle american lady commenting on the current Terror alert level. No one told me about liquids on airplanes. no one told me that toothpaste, hair ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/hong-kong-phoeeyor-the-foot-cream-slips-through.html Its a Sunday night, 2 days before departure & i am sitting outside Tahoe Underground smoking a joint with 3 typical tahoe snow-bras. They have taken me -dressed well, so very unTahoe to be almost preppy- into their confidences. I text friends with updates of the nights adventures. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/adventures-in-foreign-territory-or-bong-hits-with-bro-bras.html C'est moi... In 1939, on the eve of war, the Englishman W.H. Auden wrote these lines: "I sit in one of the dives On fifty second street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire . . ." I am a passionate, only slightly clever man. My belief in some positive striving for our species is ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/mountaindan/your-host-clean-cut-well-dressed-ready.html