This Great Work

Here are the latest in fashion trends from China. I always get a kick out of great combinations such as these.  I call them "real matchers'.   And then there are the ever present t-shirt fashions: "Cabbage  Morb delicious " "Native American, Indiana, Tribes years ago"   Popeye, Unfluid Studios  "What's--Holiday Village, Missoula MT "   I asked this girl if I could take a picture of her shirt.  It caught my attention because Tom was born in Missoula.  She, of course, had no clue what her shirt was even about. "My energy comes from freedom"   "Lovely Pig--wash your fragrant" I seriously wanted to buy this shirt because I think it is so funny.  It says "Perfect Saint".  I don't believe that anyone who understands its meaning would wear it.  I wanted it as a souvenir, but it was $80.  So, sadly I'll just keep the picture as my souvenir.  Interestingly, I did see someone wearing this shirt.  I wished I could ha

We went to Chengdu for summer's last hurrah.  Chengdu is a city of 21 million people in western China. It is as far away from us as Nauvoo is from our home in the US.   We could have taken the high speed train.  But it was a 10 hour ride and a little more expensive than flying.  So we opted to fly.   We've made better choices before.  On our way there, the plane was delayed more than 2 hours, putting us landing after 11:00pm, which caused us to have to take a taxi instead of the 30 minute ride by high speed train into the city. And somehow we got the slowest taxi driver on the planet (was he really Chinese??). But we got there and tucked ourselves in real late.  (That was nothing, however, compared to our trip home where our plane was delayed for 7 hours...causing us to arrive home at 3:05am--not really worth the ¥15 savings--two-ish dollars per ticket.)   Lesson learned:  Planes in China are just no match for the efficiency of their high speed trains. On our Chengdu to-do list