Wanderlust and Lipstick

Kunming and Beijing China. I highly recommend Kunming "eternal spring city" China.

I returned to Paris after having first visited it 28 years ago! I was a little overdue....

Never take more than a backpack (on wheels, of course).

While cycling Panama on the way down I spent a couple days with a rider from Costa Rica. He'd been on the road for two years, riding back and forth from Mexico to Panama, something like 4 times! His bike, crumpled from rear-ending a car, his panniers fashioned from ice cream buckets and wire. He stopped at the gas stations and washed windows for... Read More change to pay his way; hauling his squeegee as he went. I stopped for water at a bar. He walks in, says hi to everyone, picks up a beer and drinks it down while telling jokes and finally backs toward the exit, still talking. Once outside turns and leaves, everyone still laughing at the jokes and no mention of paying for the beer. He took delight in attempting to anger another rider from Texas we were with by frequently shouting "WALKER TEXAS RANGER" at him. His self proclaimed mission, to spread buena onda (good vibes) throughout Central America.