Thursday, April 3, 2008

The streets of Gansu


The guy in the picture is cooking/ open roasting sunflower seeds which some may say hah, sunflower seeds how harmless those must be just delicious you cant screw that up. Then you add a nice hint of aged marinated skewer meat smoke, diesel exhaust from the buses, possibly one or two lugies hocked by passer bys, if not at least the spray from it, good dust in the air considering we are in a desert, street sweepers with small straw brooms sweeping dirt into the mix, a few people putting their hands in there for some nice "taste testing", of course in which they all asked me for my Purell before they did it, if your lucky a little spray from local kids wearing split jeans so they can squat over a manhole cover and "use the facilities", and of course, lots of love.

Mark

2 comments:

the Miles Family said...

Hang in there Shamian Island is only a few days away. Much nicer. Sounds like you need to pay up and eat, drink etc never leaving the safety of the hotel. Really, it will be a relief for you. Almost like home. Take someone who hates anything without Four Seasons on the door. Do not eat at Lucy's--
Really a cute little dive, but everyone who ate there got the squirts even worse than before.

Anonymous said...

Man up Nancy! I love the smell of diesel fuel and the taste of loogies.
Just kidding. I can't wait for the 3 of you to get home!
Love,
Ann, Mark, Lauren, and Lindsey