More catch-up Posting (with Picture Links!)

[dragon_mintz]

I've backdated again, and separated things so you can just click on whichever you might want to read and not have to load everything.

Thirty Hours on a Train

Sim's Cozy Garden Hostel

Pandas!

The Long Walk & Adventures at Pizza Hut

Wenshu Monastery

Getting from Chengdu to Xi'an

This round of updates ends at a not so great point (I was getting very homesick).  Things did get better :)