by this time today, i'll be in vancouver

there's wireless internet at the Burger King in the Shanghai Pudong airport. ah, the advances of modern technology! i'm writing this post for the sole purpose of posting one picture: eat your hearts out, america.

Hainan (part three): Sun and Moon Bay

sun and moon bay. highly recommended. try finding a picture. it's called riyue wan. or riyue bay. couple thousand meters of pristine white sand beach and nothing but me and matt riding the waves for an entire afternoon. we bought some chinese brand-name sunscreen and definitely got our money's worth, cuz we both got a bit toasty. not as toasty, i suppose, as if we hadn't bought any, but we've a nice touch of color to our faces now. best part of the day: taking a nap on a beach all by myself. matt wandered off to look for some shells. funnest part of the day: trying to wave down a bus to pick up a couple of hitchhiking foreigners with dripping wet bodies, boards, and dollar bills. :)

Hainan (part two): Sanya

Sanya. if there's ever an extra four thousand dollars lounging in my wallet just waiting to be spent, this is on the top of my list. i figure that's how much it would cost to fly here, live it up for about two weeks, and get back with a few pennies. though, i could live like a miser, sleep on the beach (very tempting, even with sufficient funds), and get away with it for about two thousand. oh. that's for two people, in case you were wondering. i was thinking honeymoon. we went to the "big east sea bay" (dadonghai wan) yesterday and decided we wanted to go boogie boarding for the few hours before sundown. we got the guys to rent us two boards for ten RMB a piece (again, with the chinese prices...that's about a buck forty), but didn't have enough money to cover the security fee. in the end, they agreed to giving us the boards in exchange for my flip-flops, matt's shoes, and both our t-shirts. quite fair. we decided not to rip them off (my flip flops were the most expensive...about four USD) and brought back the boards. what nice dudes!

Hainan (part one)

i'm in hainan! you wish you were here. twenty-seven degrees in the air and about twenty-two or twenty-three in the ocean. thousand-meter beaches with nobody on them but me and a constant roll of one to two meter waves. but how did we get to hainan? let me tell you, my over-curious friend! we took a plane. straight from nanjing to guangzhou (insert several hour long layover here) and then right to haikou. in the airport in guangzhou, we met joseph, our ultra-friendly, girlfriend-visiting, new zealand-living, freshman-year-in-college-but-i'm-still-a-pimp buddy. joseph came down and sat next to us in the terminal and we chatted it up until the flight finally left (a half hour late). when he found out we hadn't found a hotel for that night, he told us he'd see if his girlfriend could hook us up. she did. we stayed at a place next to her university (where she studies vocal performance, which is super-hot) for seventy RMB. that's thirty five a piece. that's about five bucks, my good man. they also treated us to a barbequed dinner and some pretty tasty noodles. all in all, i'm pretty grateful for chinese hospitality. he's gonna get whatever he wants when he comes to america. we woke up early, got on a five hour bus, and now we're in paradise.