rogerluli Posted April 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 (edited) View My Video hope this works... Hey it did... Well anywho this is a clip taken of the view from our Yuxi, Yunnan house looking south. Looks like we'll be saddling up the horses pretty soon and leaving Hainan behind for the summer and heading to Yunnan. Right now the weather in Yuxi is very fine with days about 78 and nights in the 60's... Edited April 15, 2007 by rogerluli (see edit history) Link to comment
Dan R Posted April 15, 2007 Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 Darn Roger you sure make Yunnan tempting. Just ride down to Vietnam for real Vietnamese food. There is a tip of India that reaches Yunnan too. How long would it take to get there for a Garam Masala Chicken dinner? Now if they could just hold off on the rebelions in a couple of the countries you pass through while the train passes. I'd hate delaying everyone's trip because some Lao or Myanmar rebels stopped the train to haul away an American hostage. Link to comment
rogerluli Posted April 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 (edited) View My Video hope this works... Hey it did... Well anywho this is a clip taken of the view from our Yuxi, Yunnan house looking south. Looks like we'll be saddling up the horses pretty soon and leaving Hainan behind for the summer and heading to Yunnan. Right now the weather in Yuxi is very fine with days about 78 and nights in the 60's... Seeing this video again reminds me of what was going on at the time. Laopo, who you see at the very end, was telling the sales manager in the black shirt, that we would have to istall a RAILING... in front of the big curved glass window because otherwise one day she would be standing there and faint and fall through the window and down 13 stories...splat...I thought this was quite comical until I realized...SHE WAS SERIOUS...Over my dead body will we be putiing up a railing to spoil this view... Trust me on this one guys... I'm going to win this one... NO FREAKING RAILING WHILE I'M AROUND... Edited April 15, 2007 by rogerluli (see edit history) Link to comment
Dan R Posted April 15, 2007 Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 View My Video hope this works... Hey it did... Well anywho this is a clip taken of the view from our Yuxi, Yunnan house looking south. Looks like we'll be saddling up the horses pretty soon and leaving Hainan behind for the summer and heading to Yunnan. Right now the weather in Yuxi is very fine with days about 78 and nights in the 60's... Seeing this video again reminds me of what was going on at the time. Laopo, who you see at the very end, was telling the sales manager in the black shirt, that we would have to istall a RAILING... in front of the big curved glass window because otherwise one day she would be standing there and faint and fall through the window and down 13 stories...splat...I thought this was quite comical until I realized...SHE WAS SERIOUS...Over my dead body will we be putiing up a railing to spoil this view... Trust me on this one guys... I'm going to win this one... NO FREAKING RAILING WHILE I'M AROUND... Roger I think the last words on that video were, "We'll have it put in as soon as he leaves". Why not compromise and have a net hung below the window Link to comment
BillV 8-16-2004 Posted April 15, 2007 Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 (edited) My wife and I just returned from China last Thursday we have a home there in a gated secured housing community, were on the first floor of a six story building, utilities cost us around $40 a month the home is paid for. While there we visited her fathers old home, which has been vacant for many years what our plans are, is to build a small wall originally then taller later on around the acreage and restore the existing building it is a stone building which will need a new roof, windows, doors and maybe a floor right now there are banana trees growing inside it will not be an extensive remolded but just preserve it and later use for who knows what. Then we would like to build a smaller home maybe a one or two story home inside for family a second home or for a vacation retreat it is surrounded by banana, mango and coconut trees we see a lot of potential in the area and believe they will be building a bridge in the future to make the area more accessible.http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t30/Bar...g/China07-7.jpghttp://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t30/Bar.../China07-11.jpghttp://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t30/Bar...awg/China12.jpg Edited April 15, 2007 by BillV 8-16-2004 (see edit history) Link to comment
rogerluli Posted April 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 Well Bill having banana trees growing inside your house sure sounds handy for banana daquiris... Where is this place anyway? Link to comment
BillV 8-16-2004 Posted April 15, 2007 Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 (edited) Well Bill having banana trees growing inside your house sure sounds handy for banana daquiris... Where is this place anyway? http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/asi_east/cnt/chn/chnsrd.html Roger were in Southern China our home is in the city of Zhanjiang the property is on the outside more in the agriculture area of Zhanjiang. While we were there they were harvesting sugar cane, pineappples and coconuts. The property is surrounded by banana's trees which were also being harvested and boxed when we were there, it is beautiful country nor far from the ocean we had to take a ferry to get there. There are quite a variety of fruit on the property coconuts, banana's, papaya and mango's. http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t30/Bar...wg/P1010027.jpg Edited April 15, 2007 by BillV 8-16-2004 (see edit history) Link to comment
rogerluli Posted April 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 Sounds nice...just across the pond from our winter home of Qionghai, Hainan...Seems to me there are 2 other CFL wives from that town but I am not at liberty to name names... Link to comment
rogerluli Posted January 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item.php?blog_id=387 A nice article on Yuxi, Yunnan, our summer town from one of the approximately 20 foreigners living there... B) "Yuxi is more than anything a comfortable place to live. If you don't need the instant gratification of modern big-city life, it's easy to see why it ranks as one of the best 'small' cities in China." Link to comment
jim_julian Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 B.b.b.but Roger ..... no mention of cheese (or brats!) Link to comment
rogerluli Posted January 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 B.b.b.but Roger ..... no mention of cheese (or brats!) Not to worry Jim... I have arranged for air-drops of cheese and brats from my "sources"... Link to comment
rogerluli Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item.php?blog_id=387 A nice article on Yuxi, Yunnan, our summer town from one of the approximately 20 foreigners living there... "Yuxi is more than anything a comfortable place to live. If you don't need the instant gratification of modern big-city life, it's easy to see why it ranks as one of the best 'small' cities in China."Here's the website for one of the nearby hot springs resorts...I guess it is possible to live in a place without hot springs nearby... But why make yourself suffer like that??? http://www.moonlakehs.com/ Link to comment
chilton747 Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 (edited) http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item.php?blog_id=387 A nice article on Yuxi, Yunnan, our summer town from one of the approximately 20 foreigners living there... "Yuxi is more than anything a comfortable place to live. If you don't need the instant gratification of modern big-city life, it's easy to see why it ranks as one of the best 'small' cities in China."Here's the website for one of the nearby hot springs resorts...I guess it is possible to live in a place without hot springs nearby... But why make yourself suffer like that??? http://www.moonlakehs.com/ Hey Roger Zhongshan has hot springs resorts with golf courses. http://www.flickr.com/photos/40295335@N00/1712055715/ Edited January 27, 2008 by chilton747 (see edit history) Link to comment
rogerluli Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item.php?blog_id=387 A nice article on Yuxi, Yunnan, our summer town from one of the approximately 20 foreigners living there... "Yuxi is more than anything a comfortable place to live. If you don't need the instant gratification of modern big-city life, it's easy to see why it ranks as one of the best 'small' cities in China."Here's the website for one of the nearby hot springs resorts...I guess it is possible to live in a place without hot springs nearby... But why make yourself suffer like that??? http://www.moonlakehs.com/ Hey Roger Zhongshan has hot springs resorts with golf courses. Ah golf...As Mark Twain said, "A good walk ruined". http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1982/china2006160tk9.jpg But I could spend hours every day soaking in hot springs pools followed by a nice massage... Link to comment
chilton747 Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item.php?blog_id=387 A nice article on Yuxi, Yunnan, our summer town from one of the approximately 20 foreigners living there... "Yuxi is more than anything a comfortable place to live. If you don't need the instant gratification of modern big-city life, it's easy to see why it ranks as one of the best 'small' cities in China."Here's the website for one of the nearby hot springs resorts...I guess it is possible to live in a place without hot springs nearby... But why make yourself suffer like that??? http://www.moonlakehs.com/ Hey Roger Zhongshan has hot springs resorts with golf courses. Ah golf...As Mark Twain said, "A good walk ruined". http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1982/china2006160tk9.jpg But I could spend hours every day soaking in hot springs pools followed by a nice massage... Ahh Roger I thought you were the golfing type wearing your khakis and such. I tried to paste a picture but could only post the URL as an edit. Link to comment
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