The view at night from the rooF of our $9 hostel in Yangshou!

FRIDAY - REDUX - PART DEUX!   Okay, here we go again.  Since the unexpected interruption, and the ensuring interrogation and temporary incarceration by the local police, we missed our earlier train to Kunming (yes, it’s still a funny name and yes, it still sounds nasty – but in a good way!).  Anyway, after a lot of shouting, arm waving and picture drawing we got new tickets on a later train today.  So, we’re still headed southwest towards the Myanmar border – BURMA, BABY!

Anyway, since we had a little extra time here in Yangshou (under police surveillance), we figured why not fall into a regular routine.  Stacy joined a gym (too much weight gain from eating chicken faces and pig intestines!) and Kevin joined an atomic energy hobby club.  So the gym isn’t like Gold’s or World Gym back in America, but it is outside and we did give them a bogus address for the monthly billings.  The atomic energy club is basically for hobbyists to get together and experiment with plutonium and build small nuclear reactors from kits – and you wonder why China leads the world in the modern science!

Folks, we’d love to stay here in this little corner of heaven for awhile longer, but we’re really starting to get pressure (after the “we thought she was 18 incident”) from the local police.  Also, those rat commie bastards are getting close to identifying the local IP address we’re using to bounce these posts through our Swedish mirror site.  One way or the other, it’s only a matter of time before this escalates into an international incident.   The Riding4Beer 2011 China Tour is on the train outta here in a few hours and hopefully posting from Kunming (still funny and still nasty) tomorrow!

        
      Too much of this and the waistline expands!                      Stacy on the Stairmaster - just like Gold's Gym!

      
 We all got these in the Nuclear Science Hobby Club!               The Riding4Beer 2011 China Tour so far!