A little rainy and a little headachy...

A storm rolls in around 5 this morning and I wake-up but quickly fall back asleep as I realize what time it is. I have slept in short bursts here as I think there has been so much to see and do that I can't turn my brain off.

Morning is spent at breakfast and we have to scratch our original plans as the rain is still coming down and it is a little chilly. All of us are also in a fog -- mine is more sinus-related but i wish I could detach my head from my body, shake it out and reattach it again.

The rest of the morning is spent in the business center -- meeting other travelers (including a woman from Austin) and posting blog entries. I found I forgot to post a Hong Kong entry and I am just now figuring out how to add photos. Mind you, I am doing this all in a backdoor manner since the Chinese government seems to be blocking me from actually seeing my website. And Cait -- who has been such a lifesaver on this trip -- helps me read the Mandarin so I can convert the blogger website back into English. All I have to say is thank god, since I still can't read it except to watch for the symbol on a menu that looks like a ladder and means some kind of animal's insides -- eeewww....


We will be off to more sightseeing today at this famous palace -- I'll get the proper spelling later -- and it will take at least a couple of hours to tour it. It sits on the hills overlooking Lhasa and from the street -- wow, pretty impressive....