macau kss hello from china, kiddos. weird smelly asian city with portugese architecture and $60 hookers, anyone? 031104 ... kss hot and humid and more exhaust and cigarette smoke than I was prepared for. Every time I step out of my hotel into the thick air it's unmistakeable that I am in Southeast Asia. Tall apartment buildings on narrow streets with dirt and laundry and airconditioners clinging to the sides. Scooters are omni-present, parked 3 deep on the sidewalk and flowing through the cracks in traffic and the 1/2 step gaps in pedistrians crossing the street. Imagine building a chinatown on steroids, then putting it in a glass jar, humid and hot. Now run 100,000 diesel busses and 2-stroke scooters, and have every man in sight is chain smoking marlboros. The fish delivery bicycle dumps its water at your feet, the comic book beautiful girls smile and talk on tiny phones, and my pocket full of patacas will buy me a milk tea with tapioca balls in the bottom. Then, you can turn a corner and be on a street that looks like it came straight out of 17th century Europe, which has been re-painted and steam cleaned, filled with Starbucks and McDonalds, watch shops and clothing stores, all trying to be what I left home to escape. Weirdness, anyone? 031104 ... kss and the space bar is fucked on this keyboard 031104 ... ever dumbening strangest_place_youve_blathered 031104 ... nom blathertravel 031105 ... Olympic Torch Beijing_2008 050316 what's it to you? who go blather from