With some help, I was able to recharge my prepaid SIM card in my phone today. I ran out of credit a couple days ago.
I took the 8:30 morning bus for a 7 hour trip to Chongqing, one of the biggest cities in China. For the second time in 3 days the person sitting next to me on the bus vomited. This time right on to the floor in the hallway. Coming down on the bus from the mountain two days ago, a man was spitting and vomiting into a bag, but luckily I had my music player with me so I could ignore it then. This time the woman just vomited once and went back to sleep for most of the trip down the bumpy, unfinished highway.
I met up with a friend and we had hotpot with a total of four people. We tried the authentic hotpot with the dark red soup from all the chillis and peppers. Then we all drove to a spot to get a good nighttime view of the city and the Yangzi River which flows around it.