day 304: 敦煌 (dunhuang) = 0km

I woke up and I couldn’t really see anything outside:

Sandstorm, again (July 2nd 2008, July 28nd 2008).

“Is it very bad?” I asked the receptionist, “will I be able to go outside?”

“Oh, please don’t worry,” she replied, “it should be alright tomorrow!”

Then a lady went through all the rooms reminding everyone to keep their windows closed.

I stayed in and shot a short video of the funny weather:

(since the original footage looked so terrible and grainy anyways, I fixed this so it would look like an old film or something, kinda liked it better that way)…

I’m hoping I can take off tomorrow though. Remember: I’ll probably be able to do the next update after like four days of walking since the network coverage is so terrible out on the road, so don’t get upset if nothing happens here for a while.

Besides that, I’m in the process of redoing every single link to every single picture on the blog, so they all would point to my new photo storage over at picasa. I’m desperately trying to get as much traffic as possible off my server, that’s what it is. Another advantage is the pictures should load a lot faster, and there are also some photos in there that I fixed up for the blog but ended up not using later, so you can browse through those as well. You can leave comments on the individual pictures there too I think.

Here’s the bad news though: it’s more than 2000 photographs up until now. That means I’ll have to manually update more than 2000 hyperlinks to all the new pictures. I’m two days (yesterday and today) into this most boring of all possible tasks, and I’ve only gotten to the month of March. Now my head hurts.

I just hope that everything will go alright on this next leg of the way.

Soundtrack: Ignite - “Fear Is Our Tradition”

—total: 3555,1km