Keep your eyes on the road
26 July, 2006

I apologize to my regular readers who have been wondering why I dropped off the face of the blogosphere for the past week. In fact, I spent several days traveling over the weekend because I was scuba-diving on a sunken Ming-dynasty town in Qiandaohu (Thousand Island Lake), a reservoir created by the damming of the Xin'an River near Hangzhou back in 1959. I shot some underwater video there and will YouTube it when I have it edited into watchable shape.

I'll also be traveling over the next four days, up to Changbaishan, near the North Korean border, which should be interesting. The area we are going is supposed to be nice, but also supposed to be awash in always-entertaining Chinese mass-tourism. On the other hand, Qiandaohu was awash in mass tourism, but we still found ourselves in a nice, peaceful area, so we'll see what Changbaishan brings.

I thought I would share something that happened on the three hour drive from Hangzhou to Qiandaohu. It was night and we were about an hour into the drive. I was sitting in the front passenger seat when the driver asked if I wanted to watch television.

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