http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/ tamaraleigh-adventures in china Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:21:14 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2004. Writing Destinations Books http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/46.html Fri, 05 Nov 2004 02:16:33 GMT Ok, this thing has degraded to the point where IF I can access it, I don't get the tags, cant see the buttons and hotpoints, and cant load anything. Screw it. Since I dont know if this is even being posted I'm going to abandon it all together and try something new. Hopefully the new one will be able to be viewd by people in China (damned internet censors) and will be more reliable...sorry all...later. T http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=46 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/44.html Sat, 02 Oct 2004 11:52:24 GMT There is a tower I can see from my kitchen window that looks like a cross between a Mechanix construction and something out of the movie Metropolis. I enjoy seeing it before I’ve had coffee and woken fully because it is so surreal that it starts my day slightly off kilter. I feel better when I’m looking at the world from a little left of center. When I allow the flickers of movement at the corners of my eyes to be sprites and dimensional portals rather than blowing garbage, it makes me much happier. My reality is so much more interesting and varied than the conventionally accepted one.... (more) http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=44 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/43.html Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:56:05 GMT Well, I finaly have ADSL at home, and no more excuses to avoid writing. With a little luck and willpower I may be able to keep my updates regular. Its been just over a month and I'm well settled. The apartment has shaped up nicely and feels like home. I've got Vivian (my Chinese Sis) and Dodds (a friend from the States) staying with me for now. I don't know what Vivian will decide to do, she's still got some hard choises to make anout wether she should listen to her parents and get married (when she doesn't want to) or still try to go overseas. She may be taking a new journalist job which... (more) http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=43 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/42.html Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:31:12 GMT Hello all, Well, I'm back. After 23 hours of travel, delayed flights, teething babies, striking caterers (no meals on the plane,) and crowded airports I finaly made it to changchun. I love traveling, but I really don't like flying. The trip was ok, only a few things made it stand out. At Beijing airport, fighting through crowds of people to find a ticket to Changchun, I met a ticket scalper. I guess the fact that there were very few seats and I had a language barrier made me look like I would be easy prey. I bartered with them for awhile and finaly decided to tke my... (more) http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=42 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/40.html Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:23:44 GMT I just spent the last 4 days driving down the California coast, camping and sitting on beaches and hugging Redwoods. I was really hoping to meet up with Fernando, but the scheduling just didn't work so I cruised around just hanging out by myself. I left mom at my brothers and got some time by myself. Lots of fun. The lagoons in northern CA were amazing, the water was all marbled where the fresh met the salt and there was a big line of saltwater fish waiting for the freshwater critters to die. I camped in a place called Trinidad where the redwood stumps were bigger than the car and it... (more) http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=40 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/41.html Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:28:00 GMT http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=41 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/38.html Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:54:16 GMT busy busy busy.... I've been doing the family thing the past week and have been keeping pretty busy. This is a quickie so hang onto your hats for a point by point. Rafting on the Rouge River, going down rapids in an inflatable Tahiti. Whooo Hooo! I could see myself getting involved in Kyaking (?) as a hobby... Beaches on the Oregon coast, not as warm as Thailand, but just as beautiful in a differrent way. Driving through the big hills Oregonians call mountains, nice curvy twisty roads with dense woods stretching away as far as the eye can see. Redwood forets, dwarfed by the majesty... (more) http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=38 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/37.html Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:07:38 GMT Did you know that a new set of valves cost 400$? did you know that the winds in The Gorge reach gusts of up to 70km an hour? that I'm too tall for my bike and sometimes it hurts if I ride more than 5 hours a day? did you know that 63 percent of all highway accidents with motorcycles are fatalities, and another 20 percent end in paralization and mutilation? that I want to spent my time on my bike with no schedule so I can stop when i want and go where I want and not worry about where I have to be when? did you know that if you stick close to your mom she will pay for a lot of... (more) http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=37 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/36.html Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:32:13 GMT On the road again.... Camping in Banff and BC the last 4 days was great. I got a chance to put some real miles on the bike and test myself a little as well. Day one didn't start so great, as it was threatening rain and a little chilly. You forget how much wind-chill becomes a factor when you are on a bike. People riding in cars have no idea how 15 c can be cold when the wind is whipping at you at about 100km an hour. We went up a nice twisty road through the foothills from Lethbridge into Bragg Creek then west into Banff. I was stupid enough to lose my new ring, ... (more) http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=36 http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/archive/35.html Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:59:55 GMT I have some really cool friends. I spent last night catching up with Mikki and Sarah. Sitting in the basement work-room of Sarahs house as they cut out Hemp for making into festival bags and adding salt for the dye. Artsy creative stuff done by modern hippies while having great conversations. I've been invited to do the festival circuit with them if I ever have the time and am on the same continent. I can see myself going from FolkFest to FringeFest to South Country Fair (etc), and selling hemp while meeting the folkies and pretending its 1967. Both are still really... (more) http://tamaraleigh.blogdrive.com/comments?id=35