ON A WARM SUMMER'S EVENIN', ON A TRAIN BOUND FOR NOWHERE...
SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY! Like they say in barber college, "hair today, gone tomorrow!" Yesterday we got on a train in Jingdezhen and three trains and 1,000 miles later, we're in Guangzhou. This never really was a destination we had in mind for the Riding4Beer 2011 China Tour, but it was the only place we could get tickets for from those damn Commie ticket agents! Now we're in the far lower right corner of China, just inches from the South China Sea and an hour's train ride from Hong Kong.
Folks, we're not here for long and we're already working on tickets outta here. That'll probably take a day or two, so in the meantime we found an OK hotel that's OK. No, that's the name of it - it's the "OK HOTEL!" It's always good to know that the owners of these places shoot for being mediocre, nothing good, just...."OK." Seriously though, do we care? It's $15 bucks a night, the bedbugs are trained to not hog the blankets and we'll be outta here before they realize we stole the dirty towels!
In the meantime, while the rocket scientist train folks work on getting us 1,000 miles northwest to our original destination, we checked out the local streets around our flop house. Let's see, there's about 50 little stands selling fried "whatever-on-a-stick" (we're guessing anteater), there's a store that sells weird electrical connectors in dusty boxes (we're guessing Mao era sex aids) and there's a guy that stands on the corner all day in pajamas and yells (we're guessing he's eaten too much anteater, or used too many sex aids!). Again, like we care. Folks, we hope the next time read about us (yes, right here tomorrow), we'll be riding the rails again...
PICS - ALWAYS WITH THE PICS! ANOTHER 4 TODAY!
This is a VERY weird train station! These posts don't write themselves you know!
Our hotel was not great, just "OK!" It's "NEW YOKE," and that's "NO JOK!"
Folks, we're not here for long and we're already working on tickets outta here. That'll probably take a day or two, so in the meantime we found an OK hotel that's OK. No, that's the name of it - it's the "OK HOTEL!" It's always good to know that the owners of these places shoot for being mediocre, nothing good, just...."OK." Seriously though, do we care? It's $15 bucks a night, the bedbugs are trained to not hog the blankets and we'll be outta here before they realize we stole the dirty towels!
In the meantime, while the rocket scientist train folks work on getting us 1,000 miles northwest to our original destination, we checked out the local streets around our flop house. Let's see, there's about 50 little stands selling fried "whatever-on-a-stick" (we're guessing anteater), there's a store that sells weird electrical connectors in dusty boxes (we're guessing Mao era sex aids) and there's a guy that stands on the corner all day in pajamas and yells (we're guessing he's eaten too much anteater, or used too many sex aids!). Again, like we care. Folks, we hope the next time read about us (yes, right here tomorrow), we'll be riding the rails again...
PICS - ALWAYS WITH THE PICS! ANOTHER 4 TODAY!
This is a VERY weird train station! These posts don't write themselves you know!
Our hotel was not great, just "OK!" It's "NEW YOKE," and that's "NO JOK!"
But even though your not where you want to be, you guys "are making great time".
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So if the Ok Hotel was 15 dollars, you should of went up the street to the "Great Hotel." It couldn't of cost much more!
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