Indecision. Uncertainty.  Those are two things when it comes to travel that I am generally unfamiliar with.  I’m sort of caught between several things right now that was making it rather difficult to decide where I should go to next.

The first being that I got back from my most recent RTW trip, yes I’ve done more than one RTW.  The second being that all to familiar ‘unsettled’ feeling of getting back from such a long trip and having to fit back into ‘normal’ life once more.  The third, without getting into to many details is work being somewhat unsettled and no its not that my job is at risk from taking such a long break.  Far from it.  I just have several different options in play at the moment and its a waiting game to see which one comes through.  In the mean time I am doing that whole ‘same shit, different day’ routine with my current position.

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So the whole trail around the world is over.  Its been over for quite some time now I’ve just been a little slake about updating the website.  There are various reasons for that among them was trying to find something polite about China and not really having a very good internet connection at the moment.

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My time in China is almost at an end. I haven’t written much while I was here for a variety of reasons. One of them being that it seems my website is blocked in China since I can not access it.

China seems to be a bit of a Black Hole when it comes to communication and information generally. You know, everything gets sucked in and nothing gets out?

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So I went to see China’s Great Wall, or at least I went to see part of it. Well ok a very small and restored part of it.  Still I did go mainly because it’s one of ‘those’ places that you kind of have to go and see if you go to a country.

In China as far as I am concerned one of those places is the Great Wall.

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Note: I wrote these entries while I was in China but could not post them to the site due to the internet filter. It’s all well and truly over now but I figured I would post them anyway.

I’m sitting in a cafe in Urumqi China, it’s raining outside and since I’ve finished my meal I figured I might as well start an entry for China.  China is proving to be somewhat frustrating.

I’ve been in China for a week and I can not say that I have done much except try to organize transport and accommodation. I’ve come up against China’s Internet filter at least at a guess that is what it is since I can not access my website. It will be interesting to see if I can post this or not through the application that I am using to write it or if it will have to wait until I get home.

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