moving on

slow moving getting out of beijing, for one as i mentioned chris and i have been sick, really nasty cough,...otherwise being somewhat indecisive and honestly just not in a big hurry, however tomorrow we leave for the karst mountain terrain around the city guilin, it is the region you sometimes picture when thinking of southern china, we fly out of beijing as it is a 24 hour train ride, chris will be with us for the weekend and may meet us further along on the trip, alas hop and i will be forced to breach the language barrier, a challenge i'm looking forward to...
so tonight we say goodbye to beijing and the folks we have met, and finally start really travelling through this country, and hopefully get some fresh air and some good ole guilin style snake soup with snake bile wine and river rat, emmmmmmmmmmmmmm