frustration

I've arrived in Kunming which seems to be a very nice and quite liveable city - especially when compared to Xi'an and Beijing. The hostel rooms arent so great, but it has a great rooftop deck to enjoy the nice weather, so that's definately nice. Gone too are the smog and hot temperatures of Xi'an and Beijing, which are both welcomed changes. Unfortunately, my computer has taken a turn for the worst and pretty much has stopped working entirely for no apparent reason. It feels like it's overheating and then just kind of shuts down without warning. So now I'm left with a hefty and utterly useless pile of crappy chinese plastic to lug around for seven weeks in the hopes that I can recover the first few weeks worth of pictures from it. Most of you know me well enough to realize I'm having a hard time letting this go and it's bugging me to no end right now. Recent weather has also left much of this area very wet and muddy - meaning some of the trails I was hoping to trek aren't so navigable anymore. In any event all this has left me in a sour mood. So I'm not sure where all this is going to lead me. I should have a better idea over the next couple days, though it's going to be hard to maintain the blog as I have and upload pictures without my computer. I'll see what I can do, but no promises. Anyway, that's it for now, hopefully I'll be hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge in a couple of days...