So, I was catching up with some friends' blogs, and my buddy Sean recounts the time we almost died in Shanghai, much more eloquently than I could have. It's even a cliffhanger in two parts!
Until she skidded into an intersection like she was performing the stunt routine for a Goodyear Aqua-tread commercial and Froggered us halfway through ten lanes of terrifying cross traffic. That we are, ass-a-kilter pointed at a forty five degree angle inside of the far-easts largest intersection. And traffic is just racing by. Well, that is until one car wasn't as agile as the others in swimming right around us. And slammed on his own breaks and fucking hit us.So what does she do? "Oh no, I've been in a car accident, I hope my patrons and the other vehicle are all right!" That's what a sane person would think. She fucking giggles. Yep, a shrill little giggle and then she slowly drags our car out of the intersection like some sort of retarded four-wheeled sloth. And away we went.So that's how we almost died."
BTW, Sean screamed like a girl... actually, so did I.
Organizing photos and stumbled across this picture that I took in Singapore before we flew to Nepal. Going to tag it with one of those "what's in your bag" photos on my Flickr... Shamefully (or perhaps wisely), after the first day carrying this stuff, I stuffed it into a duffel and let one of our porters carry it in addition to all the other stuff he was already carrying.
This was an awesome shot from Nepal. We were walking along, and these two dudes were beating the rice pile with these wooden sticks... SlyMartin went back and snapped a few shots with his D300.
Unfortunately, they were no longer whacking things with sticks, but it's still a great shot!
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