Another of Theo's entries, the most emotionally difficult day of our trip.
Renting a van and driver for the day trip to Li Mei's home town: $125
Big dinner there for four adults, two boys and a little girl: $13
Two full grocery carts of cereal, protein powder, honey and cookies: $54
Seeing the orphanage: heartbreaking
Schell (the guide) told us it was an hour and a half drive to Yongquan (plus "China time," the allowance you make here for traffic, closed roads and who knows what else), 100+ km through red, hilly countryside that reminds me of South Dakota. Every flat stretch of ground is farmed, and a lot of the rest has been torn out for building materials. They're even trying to sell the strip-mined hillsides as "cave houses" that stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter; you get bonus mud oozing through the ceiling year round too, I bet.
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