GUESS WHAT SHANNON GOT?????

Shannon's Shingles!
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If you guessed SHINGLES you win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right, shingles, adult chicken pox.  AWESOME.

Apparently my body does not like having its internal clock re-set.

Don't worry, it looks a lot better now and I'm on the mend.  just thought you would all like to see the glory of the road.

One of the many fantastic signs we have been documenting
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A shout out to Dr. Michael Morrow of the US, who single handedly correctly diagnosed my blisters from half a world away via email and photos!  You the man.

To quote him, "there's not a whole hell of a lot you can do for it"

:)   PS.  The "interactive" map has us zig zagging across China...rest assured that our route has not looked like that.  We started north and progressed south the whole time.  Tonight we fly to Guilin to avoid a 30 hour train ride.  Just a 1 hour flight.

here we are being floated down the mountain by the chinese tourists
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Kunming, where we are now, is certainly the best city that we have visited in China.  Its a lot more relaxed, you can see the sky, and it has really pleasant weather and very friendly people.  We have just bummed around the city, went to a bird and flower market...so many cute bunnies and turtles!  it was hard not to liberate them.

We cut each others hair yesterday...that's right.  it took a few hours.  I did a stupendous job on carries flowing locks...mine looks fantastic minus a near catastrophe that has left me slightly lock impared on the right side...i can cover it up no problem.   :)

Talk to you all soon!

Shannon and Carrie

ps. RODO, if you read this I need your email address and you need to get me a job by February...