Today is a drive day again, and I sleep through most of it.
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| some scenes from the drive...on Laurie's camera |
We stopped for lunch in a town, parking the truck next to a KTV, i.e. a karaoke bar. Though I haven’t visited a KTV myself, some of the UK to Oz group have. It many of these bars, you don’t get up to sing to whoever is in the bar, but rather a group of you rent a booth or room with its own karaoke machine, and you don’t even have to sing as the exclusively young female staff will sing for you. They will also bring you drinks. And they will keep you entertained in many other ways if you so wish and show them sufficient portraits of Mao.
Although it is lunch time, this KTV’s ladies are already dressed to impress, and they gather outside to giggle and smile at us. Obviously karaoke is popular at all times of day in China.
Tonight we bush camp just off the motorway.
Laurie keeps up her clean run in the now renamed Laurie award. Having spent four years at American universities learning how to forcefully ask stupid questions, I tell her that I will not do her thinking for her. ‘But’, she says, ‘I have lots of philofafel questions’.
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