China 2005 Trip Narrative

This is the first ever chronological compilation of my blog posts about my March 2005 trip to China. For most people, this is probably way too much to read, but I have had requests from some readers to put it in this reader-friendly format, rather than the bottom-to-top way Blogger puts posts in order. This way, you'll be able to remember where you left off, if you're really that interested. The links are dated by the time I wrote them, but they're also chronological as far as the events recounted within the post.

This menu will be linked from the "China 2005" icon in the sidebar on the homepage and will always be accessible from there.

You'll notice, if you read all the way through, that the trip ends abruptly. There was plenty more where that came from, but it took me almost a year to get that far. On subsequent narratives I got a bit more concise and timely in my trip summaries.

I hope eventually to have a YouTube page with all my videos linked to these posts. Stay tuned for new developments as I'll be updating the other trip narratives soon, and enjoy reading up on Yunnan province, China.

1. 3/3/05 – Freedom Fighting
2. 4/7/05 – Gametime
3. 4/21/05 – The First of Many Sunrises – Day 1
4. 4/25/05 – Our Humble Abode
5. 4/28/05 – An 8-Part Body
6. 4/28/05 – Two by Two
7. 8/9/05 – In Search of Three Circles
8. 8/9/05 – We Are the Pavement
9. 8/9/05 – Village 1 – Our Test Run
10. 8/23/05 – Bus Station
11. 8/23/05 – Linear Perspective
12. 8/23/05 – Service Road
13. 8/23/05 – Village 2
14. 8/23/05 – Seeing the Future
15. 8/23/05 – Bearing a Bamboo Burden
16. 8/25/05 – The Kingdom Belongs to Such as These
17. 8/25/05 – Kingdom Bearers
18. 8/27/05 – The Next Generation
19. 8/27/05 – Alley-oop: A VCD Drop Highlight Reel
20. 8/27/05 – Deep Roots
21. 9/8/05 – Perspectives of Pain
22. 11/17/05 – Our Chariot
23. 11/21/05 – Another Helping Hand
24. 11/21/05 – The Colonel
25. 11/28/05 – Blind Faith and Passes
26. 11/28/05 – Movable Beds
27. 11/28/05 – Crouching Driver, Whistling Steve
28. 11/28/05 – Tired Sun
29. 11/30/05 – Good Night
30. 11/30/05 – Success
31. 12/24/05 – The North Road
32. 12/24/05 – Hat Trick
33. 12/24/05 – Bamboo Storehouse
34. 12/24/05 – Quick Change
35. 12/24/05 – Uncharted Villages and Strange Prayers
36. 12/24/05 – Temple Sideview
37. 12/24/05 – Courtyard
38. 12/24/05 –Breakfast with the Fangs – Part I
39. 1/9/06 – Real China
40. 1/9/06 – Breakfast with the Fangs – Part II
41. 1/9/06 – Refuge
42. 1/11/06 – Rubber Trees
43. 1/27/06 – Home
44. 1/27/06 – Harvesting Mud