So if you happen to have skipe or very very cheap long distance or figure out a way to do it cheap I have a phone number.  I do not want anyone spending they baby milk money or food stamps on calling me, but if its doable I’d love to hear from folks whats got the means to call.

I think the international code is 011 then 13598065775 although you may want to look it up online as to how to do it.  I am 11 hours away so almost the opisite of your time.  During the weekdays I teach all morning sometimes mid to late afternoon, so evenings (early morings for you) or weekends are usually a good bet.  I would love to hear from you but only if you can do it on the cheap.

Love yall and am currently working on a new blog.

w

Hey China Adventure Bloggers™
(you and your fancy trademarks)

You may have noticed the broke-ness of the most recent 9 photos. It’s been fixed now, God Bless America, so now you can see all those wonderful photographs from the East of the East.
Read the comment on the one with two women and find me a person that doesn’t agree!

A little bird told me there is much more to come, so stay logged in.

marcus

Man I can’t even tell you how crazy life is this past week.  I have traveled hundreds and hundreds of miles and been in transit or sleeping all the time.  I have slept on trains, boats, and busses.  never in the same city for more than one night yet.  I am seeing some stuff you could not believe or imagine.  My whole soul sings a wonderful song, and I am not trying to be sappy, ironic, or funny in any way. 

 Its true!  Its true!

I don’t sleep and my feet hurt and we eat the same food every meal, (a whole fish carcuss which we are sposed to pick at and place bits in a rice bowl) and the travel co. have it set up so every single cool place we go we have to go to three outlet stores that sell

 A) pearls/sculpted marble/sculpted jade

 B) Tea

 C)chinese medicine

three a day.  Yesterday they actually took us to the same one they had taken us to the day before and didn’t move the bus for at least an hour.  At first they tried to get me to sit trapped in a classroom for a half hour sales lecture about fish oil.  I have since learned how to stubbornly say “I am not going” in Chinese.

Ah, but I have been finding ways to escape.  Me and my new best bro (the stooge formally) have teamed up and started leaving the tour bus behind.  We use the lonely planet as our guide and have had adventures that you would not believe.  Really great terrific times, and the tour company has had it with us.  HAHAHA!  Up yours tour company!

And I feel that the former stooge and I are at the end of the buddy cop movie where the two mismatched detectives realize they are on the same side and therefore buds for life.  I have been teaching him how to swear in english and he teaches me in Chinese.  He loves it, and I keep having to remind him when he gets to America he can’t just use the F word all the time.  He warns me simalarly of the phrase “nei to ma da” which I will unleash on someone in China who will not expect it.  Got to find someone who really has it coming as it is a way bad thing to say.

So anyway, dispite the underhanded scheming of the tour company I am having the time of my life.  I really think this has been a life altering thing being some of the places I have been this week.  I have taken around 400 pictures so far and still have 5 days left, 5 days of Guilin and Yangshou (ahhhhhhhh Yangshou) and I promise to write a lot when I get back to Henan. 

Love and miss all of you and see you all in my dreams a lot.

w

PS I don’t remember if I wrote it last time or not but Georganna and Andy Wiley are now the proud parents of Bela Luna Love Wiley.  God bless.

lots more later blog believers so stay tuned.

Thank you to all who have written to express their wish for my birthday happiness.  I am sorry I havn’t been able to respond to emails yet as I have been (and am currently) on my trip.  I don’t have time to get into major details (I am in Lijiong city, it is the first day of chinese new years and I am paying per hour to use the computer) but fear not blog believers.  I have been faithfully taking notes in a book on the goings on of every day out here and promise to write the hell out of it when I get back.  Ok, love you all gotta go, I hear fire works and feel like drinking.

Ps

last night I dreamt that I was in China and ran into Mike Dunam.  We got drunk in the dream.