No Rules, Just Right

We came across some weird statues. This one had his butt stuck up in the air. Some other tourist decided to pay due respect to the Chinese culture.
This was taken cruising through one of the great gorges on the Yangtze River. The Crocs are working out great by the way and seem to be popular around the world.
Reed Flute Cave. This picture came out great though the cave had been "Disneyed up" a lot. It had the Stalacktyes and Maglites and the usual cave stuff. To make it more appealing they tried to convince us to see all of these shapes made by the cave walls- like flowers and lions and fruit.

This family took us in while we were in Singapore (Jade, Dan, Forrest, Julie, Me, and Kim - the Long Family). We are eating dinner at a great local Indian restraunt served quasi-Texas de Brazil style on a Bannananana Leaf. The two little girls Jade and Julie were adorable.

Singapore was very modern and very exciting with a flair for cultural style from a lot of backgrounds and apparently a hub for Financial, Shipping, and Industrial stuff for Asia.


I get to ponder life a lot on this trip. Something I started to see is that there are layers to life. People have layers - any given day you meet someone and get a snapshot of who they are but they have layers of experiences and influences and everything else that has brought them to where they are right now. Buildings have layers; and food, and wars and songs and seasons and atomic fire ball candy. To better understand something it helps to understand the layers and the process they came to be.

You can just look around and, if you want, you can start to see things in layers. Not sure if it will help you or anything, but it seems to give depth to everything- if that's what you are looking for.

We are now in Darwin and are about to buy a car. 1990 something Ford Falcon. It seemed to be the best way to get around so we went for it. We'll be heading down through the middle of Australia for the next few days in hopes to catch Ayers Rock.

After that to Melbourne- and I'll have an update for you then.