Hello from southwest China!  I’m in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province.  It’s the tail end of my trip, tomorrow I will catch a train back home.  Of course I gotta see the pandas before I go so I’ll do that tomorrow as well.

It has been one hell of a trip.  Many ups and downs, figuiratively and literally.  Me and many of my fellow teacher friends in Hunan went west to the high mountainous areas bordering Tibet.  Chengdu is at 500 meters and Litang (our final destination) rests at 4,150 meters.  That trip was a little nuts.  I got pretty bad altutude sickness and my friend came down with a bizarre stomach disorder so we made a rushed dash back home.  There is really so much to tell and so many pictures to show that I’m waiting until I get back to Huaihua to give you guys the full scoop.  Zaijian.