Over the last few weeks

So you see these signs all over the city, but I'm not sure what they're pointing to. I'm pretty sure the Olympic Village isn't particularly close to this sign, and in any case its just indicating an entrance onto a highway. Hopefully their signage for the proper highway exit is just as well marked.

There are a lot of people in China. To get from my house to the subway I take a bus that passes through this intersection, which is always crowded (although this day way particularly bad). This photo was taken from the bus window. Interestingly, Kunming (the city I visited last weekend) has started putting in bus-only express lanes down the middle of their streets to make bus travel more attractive and reliable. If only Beijing would follow suit!

As that last post got spammed...

...I've turned on the word-typey thing for posting comments. Sorry.

Trip to Kunming 到昆明的旅行

Hi everyone! Last weekend I took a quick weekend trip to Kunming, where I lived when I first came to China (four years ago already!). I wanted to see some friends there, and also I found a screaming deal on plane tickets so off I went!Here we have me and a few friends, recently married. That delicious food is courtesy of Yunnan's Dai ethnic group. They've got an interesting spicy-sour thing going on, fabulous!
Look! Blue sky! They still have that in Kunming!
A restaurant with ambiance.
A few more of my friends from my Previous Life in Kunming.
Cat on a roof with friend-in-yellow-shirt's tiny car in the background.