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It has been really hot in Yunnan this past week. 35 to 38 every day. Everyone is complaining about the heat so early this year.

 

Well Don Yunnan is a very big place... :P You must mean way south and LOW...Up on the central plateau of Kunming and Yuxi it is only in the low 80s... B)

 

I just looked it up and Yunnan's high is 6,740 m while the lowest point is 76 m...so a change in temp only requires a change in altitude..."changes in latitude, changes in altitude, changes in attitude"... :D or something like that... :D

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It has been really hot in Yunnan this past week. 35 to 38 every day. Everyone is complaining about the heat so early this year.

 

Well Don Yunnan is a very big place... :D You must mean way south and LOW...Up on the central plateau of Kunming and Yuxi it is only in the low 80s... :D

 

Yes, Jinghong. Everyone is very hot right now.

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It has been really hot in Yunnan this past week. 35 to 38 every day. Everyone is complaining about the heat so early this year.

 

Well Don Yunnan is a very big place... :P You must mean way south and LOW...Up on the central plateau of Kunming and Yuxi it is only in the low 80s... B)

 

I just looked it up and Yunnan's high is 6,740 m while the lowest point is 76 m...so a change in temp only requires a change in altitude..."changes in latitude, changes in altitude, changes in attitude"... :D or something like that... :D

 

What do they say: 1,000 miles north for every 5,000 ft altitude.

 

Something like that.

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Now roggie, is that yer house in the photo? The one that looks like it is nosed into the rainforest? That is one beautiful place. I had thought your houses were in those highrise condos them Chinabillys call houses....the type I'll wind up in :D like I'm 58 and retired or something :D with no grass to cut, and all that other AARP stuff.

 

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Now roggie, is that yer house in the photo? The one that looks like it is nosed into the rainforest? That is one beautiful place. I had thought your houses were in those highrise condos them Chinabillys call houses....the type I'll wind up in ;) like I'm 58 and retired or something :lol: with no grass to cut, and all that other AARP stuff.

 

tsap seui

 

Yeah I'm just pulling people's chains tonight Tsap... :rolleyes: and I'll also confess that we are NOT traveling by camel train... :ph34r:

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Now roggie, is that yer house in the photo? The one that looks like it is nosed into the rainforest? That is one beautiful place. I had thought your houses were in those highrise condos them Chinabillys call houses....the type I'll wind up in ;) like I'm 58 and retired or something :lol: with no grass to cut, and all that other AARP stuff.

 

tsap seui

 

Yeah I'm just pulling people's chains tonight Tsap... :rolleyes: and I'll also confess that we are NOT traveling by camel train... :ph34r:

 

Me thinks that Rog is looking for a more temperate climate for his old age! ;) :P

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Now roggie, is that yer house in the photo? The one that looks like it is nosed into the rainforest? That is one beautiful place. I had thought your houses were in those highrise condos them Chinabillys call houses....the type I'll wind up in ;) like I'm 58 and retired or something :lol: with no grass to cut, and all that other AARP stuff.

 

tsap seui

 

Yeah I'm just pulling people's chains tonight Tsap... :rolleyes: and I'll also confess that we are NOT traveling by camel train... :ph34r:

 

Me thinks that Rog is looking for a more temperate climate for his old age! ;) :P

 

Man that is the truth Charles... ;)

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Now roggie, is that yer house in the photo? The one that looks like it is nosed into the rainforest? That is one beautiful place. I had thought your houses were in those highrise condos them Chinabillys call houses....the type I'll wind up in ;) like I'm 58 and retired or something :lol: with no grass to cut, and all that other AARP stuff.

 

tsap seui

 

Yeah I'm just pulling people's chains tonight Tsap... :rolleyes: and I'll also confess that we are NOT traveling by camel train... :ph34r:

 

Me thinks that Rog is looking for a more temperate climate for his old age! ;) ;)

 

Man that is the truth Charles... ;)

 

Sounds like you have found it, too. It's a great feelin' I know. ;) Good luck Roger! :P

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It has been really hot in Yunnan this past week. 35 to 38 every day. Everyone is complaining about the heat so early this year.

 

Well Don Yunnan is a very big place... ;) You must mean way south and LOW...Up on the central plateau of Kunming and Yuxi it is only in the low 80s... :P

 

I just looked it up and Yunnan's high is 6,740 m while the lowest point is 76 m...so a change in temp only requires a change in altitude..."changes in latitude, changes in altitude, changes in attitude"... :lol: or something like that... :rolleyes:

 

 

 

Jin says its really hot in Kunming at the moment, wish I was there still getting snow here in Denver :ph34r:

 

So you live in "smoke city"

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It has been really hot in Yunnan this past week. 35 to 38 every day. Everyone is complaining about the heat so early this year.

 

Well Don Yunnan is a very big place... :huh: You must mean way south and LOW...Up on the central plateau of Kunming and Yuxi it is only in the low 80s... B)

 

I just looked it up and Yunnan's high is 6,740 m while the lowest point is 76 m...so a change in temp only requires a change in altitude..."changes in latitude, changes in altitude, changes in attitude"... :blink: or something like that... :D

 

 

 

Jin says its really hot in Kunming at the moment, wish I was there still getting snow here in Denver :rolleyes:

 

So you live in "smoke city"

 

I wonder will they ban smoking at the resturants in Yuxi?

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It has been really hot in Yunnan this past week. 35 to 38 every day. Everyone is complaining about the heat so early this year.

 

Well Don Yunnan is a very big place... :huh: You must mean way south and LOW...Up on the central plateau of Kunming and Yuxi it is only in the low 80s... B)

 

I just looked it up and Yunnan's high is 6,740 m while the lowest point is 76 m...so a change in temp only requires a change in altitude..."changes in latitude, changes in altitude, changes in attitude"... :blink: or something like that... :rolleyes:

 

 

 

Jin says its really hot in Kunming at the moment, wish I was there still getting snow here in Denver :rolleyes:

 

So you live in "smoke city"

 

I wonder will they ban smoking at the resturants in Yuxi?

 

BAN SMOKING... :o

 

Why they're more likely to REQUIRE SMOKING... :smoker:

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We cheated, last week we were staying at a hotel with a pool so we had our own water splashing festival. My wife and daughter always sent me many photos of people getting wet at the festival. The big fun for the boys was to find a toursit young woman to get completely wet.

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I vow to you all that this is... :P

 

THE VERY LAST TIME... :P

 

And anyway it isn't my fault...my wife did it... :P We had some hot, humid weather this past week and I was informed by laopo... :D that she couldn't possibly go to Hainan to live... :)

 

So we have reopened the Yunnan option and will now be retring FOR SURE in Yuxi, Yunnan (if this ever changes you will also be reading that I have eviscerated myself with a grapefruit spoon on Don's front porch... :P )

 

Actually this makes more sense since we decided to spend the winters cruising on down the Mekong to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia and Singapore...

http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/tag/Asian+Development+Bank

 

Trade with these ASEAN countries and China is exploding and Yunnan is the place it will be going through with new highways and raillines planned all over... :)

 

Also Yunnan has been discovered as a great place to grow grapes for fine wines and American and Aussie wineries are dumping wads of cash into developing vineyards...So we can enjoy a fine Yunnan Cabernet with our sheepeshead stew... B)

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roGgiE,

 

As a wisened old man once told me when I complained about the winter cold, once long ago and faraway.....

 

My humble student I must tell you this....

 

When I am cold I can always

put on enough clothes

to make me comfortable

 

When I am hot

I cannot take off enough

clothes to be comfortable

 

While I would never try and influence another's mind on where to live in China, I can only politely say...screw HOT AND MUGGY. And screw it with somone else's "equipment" NOT mine!!! :)

 

Life is too short to live in HOT AND MUGGY!!!!

 

In China, the worst city I ever saw was HOT Filthy DIRTY Guangzhou. It would take $20,000USD per week to even begin to intice me to live south of Beijing in China. B)

 

I'll come "stay in a hotel" and visit you in the wintertime, roGgiE. :D

Otherwise, I'm up North, where the wimmin look the bestest and the air you breath isn't as hot as the tip of my handrolled, by Chairman Moe hisowndamnself, ceegars!!

 

Vietnam was often 105 in the shade, but as a chopper pilot we could often escape to 2,500 feet (out of effective small arms range) as we flew ash and trash missions.

 

Have fun floatin' down the big orange Mekong, I saw many interesting sights along the river banks as we flew north up the river in Cambodia, with our skids skimmin' the water. :P

 

tsap seui

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