Today I am completely ready to be done with The World
Race. This feeling started this morning
when I tried to turn my laundry in to be washed. I was told the hostel does not do laundry
even though I have had it done before. I
was annoyed, but went straight to the lady doing laundry. She was not easy to communicate with. After a frustrating conversation she took my
clothing and I am hoping I get it back in time for our trip to Beijing. Then I went down for breakfast. I was charged 8 RMB rather than 6. I tried to dispute the price, but they were
already not happy with my due to the laundry discussion. So I paid then left the hostel. We have tickets to take a 29 hour train to
Beijing. We will be sharing our cubicles
with random people and none of us have bottom bunks. At first I was going to get a middle bunk,
but things changed and once again I am on the top bunk. The worst part is that we have no idea where
to go to catch the train. It is either in
this city or about 2 hours away. No one
has been able to give us a clear answer, so we are hoping that we make the
correct decision. If we miss the train
we loose our money and our chance to go to Beijing. The trains were hard enough to navigate last trip
and we had a guide. I am feeling a
little frustrated and ready to go back to where I can communicate.
This evening we took a taxi to a bus that took us two hours
to a city where we took another taxi to the bus. Communication was a struggle along the way,
but we were eventually able to navigate to where we needed to be. Our train turned out to be 38 hours long with
a total traveling time of 41 hours. The
top bunk was not too bad, but I could have done without the hacking and
coughing.
