Onion...tasms.

Oh, Onion, how i love thee.

Olympics

this article made my freaking day, cause its oh oh so true. 

it also, oddly enough, made me really really miss beijing. 

i think being on the big island so far away from all asians is having adverse affects on me. i'm having withdrawals. i havent seen the asian squat in a full week. a full week!

tears.

in case youre wondering why the recent inundation of blog postings, it's because i want to get you all amped up and excited before i disappear again tomorrow for a week or so. my access to the internet is only temporary, tomorrow i will leave alea and her loverman and rejoin with my camping crew. for how long? that remains to be seen. i may fly home to the small island of oahu early or i may stay here on the big island till the weekend. which will it be?! no one knows. oh the suspense!

kisses

love&luz

jessie

mongolia revisited

I'm on the way to a beautiful tan.

The big island so far has been much more condusive to me being naked in the sunshine than oahu ever was. Maybe i should have hiked more on oahu and laid out in the koolaus, but still. its just so easy here. open door, lay down in hammock. smile at alea and jonah when they wake up. repeat.

its rather nice.

i wish i had pictures to show all of you from china and from the past few days, but alas and alack i wont be back to them until i get home next week sometime. youll just have to let your imaginations run away with you until then. 

i dont think i ever fully explained the unexplainable beauty of Inner Mongolia to all of you, but suffice to say it left me utterly breathless. 

We took the train up on Friday evening, an adventure in and of itself. I'm sure we all recall how much j.filth loves trains, and this train was no dissapointment. It was about a 10 or 11 hour train ride from Beijing to Inner Mongolia, and in order to pass time before bed Kalinda and I did flashcards for shots. Fun, and educational! I slept well that night.

Next morning we rolled on into Hohhot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia. From there it was straight out to the grasslands...just a note, i would be giving you all the Mandarin names of these places, but as previously mentioned I'm not on my own computer and the one I'm using doesn't have characters on it. Such a shame. Anyway, the grasslands. Sexy, alluring, rolling, grasslands. Home to sexy matou players and horsemen. We slept the night in a yurt after a day spent being shown various facets of traditional mongolian culture. some people went horse riding, while the vegan in me wouldn't allow me to do this and thusly i wandered the grasslands on my own. so lovely. a storm came upon me in the middle of my wanderings, and drenched me down to my bones. it was beautiful. the men were beautiful. they had long hair, and were mongolian. we smiled at each other across stretches of open plain. that is, until i pinned one to the ground and did a victory dance in the first drops of a grassland storm.

yeah, so i wrestled one of the herdsmen. they were doing some kind of demonstration showing traditional monoglian wrestling antics, at the summation of which i somehow ended up insisting on attempting. after much laughing, i was strapped into some kind of leather vest (i shudder to recall it..) and found myself squaring off with a small, wiry, sun kissed mongolian. We went two rounds, the first of which i was taken down in. The second of which i somehow managed to end up on top of my adversery, in the dust, victorious. i've got the pictures to prove it :)

having made a name for myself with the herdsmen, i was approached all night long with shots of the white pungent liquor synonymous with china in general and inner mongolia in particular. yay for getting toasted under the full moon on the mongolian grasslands.  

The next day we awoke and feasted on rice porridge and various pickled vegetables. it made my day. The previous night's dinner had been typical Chinese fare (at least for me, the others had mutton), embellished with yak butter and yak milk tea. While it was exciting for everyone else, it held little interest for me- this is why the breakfast of rice porridge and pickled vegetables (a rarity in pastry and rice heavy beijing) made me so happy. then we hopped onto the bus to go explore Hohhot.

This post is becoming lengthy, so i think im going to take a nap and relate my exploits at a later date. love you all.

jess

Re-Update

Accomplishments of the Day: 

Waking Up.

Preparing breakfast of fresh pineapple, noni, bananas, cherries, oranges, jackfruit, cashew nut milk, and granola.

Getting out of the house and running errands in Hilo (yay farmers market!)

Picking a Coconut, hacking it open, and having a fresh drink.

Feasting on the meat of said fresh coconut.

Swimming naked in the rain.

Vegan Lunch at the 'natch (Natural Foods Market)

Sitting here typing this.

Accomplishments of the my Return:

Thursday

Arrived, after 12 hours of travel. I then had to pay 40 dollars for a cab to Justin's house, which is where all my stuff is living while im on big island. Could i have had someone pick me up? Yea. Did i? No. Was there any reason to this? No, i'm just weird and wasteful sometimes. After dropping my stuff in his room I myself dropped onto his bed and passed out for about 5 hours. I then met Alea, got an acai bowl, took a hot shower, and slept.

(Note: ALL my stuff consists of my laptop and my large green duffel. As in, thats everything I own. And that fact makes me smile a big minimalist smile.)

Friday

In all honesty, I don't remember Friday super well. I awoke, Alea and I had breakfast, then I think we slothed around for a while. We met up with B-rad later for some lunch and then pranced to first friday in Honolulu. No big, same 'ol same 'ol.

Saturday

Yo! Big Island day. Miss my early flight cause i don't think I have my ID with me...and then find out later after I've arrived it was in the bottom of my bag. Grrreat. Spent an extra hundred cause i missed my flight into Kona and had to buy a new ticket into the Hilo airport. Shrug. At least i landed...After this I rendevous with Kalinda and say goodbye to Alea (who flew in with me to visit with her lover man) We went to Kalinda's house and then down to the blacksand beach at the end of her street. Beautiful beach, right next to a fresh water spring and an old, abandoned, rusted sugar mill. It hurts its so pretty down there. Then we collected the rest of the camping crew, drove to some water falls, climbed said waterfalls, and headed to our camp site to play house.

Sunday

Woke up, packed up, bought a big cheap mexican breakfast, hit the farmers market, and then hit the dirt roads of Puna. We took a lovely morning in the natural steam caves, hit a different beach, and then stopped for the afternoon at another blacksand nude beach for the hippie drum circle. After this we showered off at some rest stop and then headed to Jah Pizza, this weekly free pizza/ drum circle night at one of the hippie communes. Lots of crazy hippies running around doing crazy hippie things. They made me join hands and 'Ohm' before we could eat. Cause theyre crazy hippies.

Monday

Once again, woke up.  I don't know why i feel it's necessary to add this into each day, but i guess it's true since i did it...On Monday I think we did a combination of waterfalls, beaches, and...oh yes, hot ponds. We also saw lava, cause the big island has an active volcano and stuff. Then we slept. 

It was fantastic, and punctuated with nakedness.

Tuesday

Woke up, beached it in the morning, injured my foot standing naked on the lava rock cliffs being pummeled by the waves, pranced around the volcano for a while, went off roading and met Alea at a green sand beach. Was kidnapped by Alea and her lover man and carted off to his two story rambling home in the Hawaiian countryside. Slept in a bed and took a hot shower- oh so good after days of camping. 

I've gotten sleepy typing all of this, and obviously lazy with my descriptions. I swear, everything is full of beautiful fantastic adventure! I'm just worn out from all of it and therefore doing a poor job describing the vibrant luciousness that is my Big Island trip. You all should feel blessed that my ass is even sitting in front of a computer long enough to type this out when ive got all of big island beckoning me.

Love you, and i'll get at you about the last days in China next episode ;)

Love&luz

jess

She lives!

So, I'm home from China.

It's been an incredibly busy past couple of weeks and i know that i havent kept you guys up to date on ANYTHING.

its cause im a loser.

totally.

inner mongolia was beautiful, and the week i had after that in China was filled with rushing about attempting to smash all of my prancing into the small amount of time i had left. i got back into hawaii last thursday, spent two days on oahu, and am now on the big island.

the past four days ive been camping around doing a whole lot of nothing. it's been lovely.

and guess what! no pictures cause im not on my own computer.

i havent even been in cell phone range the past half a week, so what can you expect?

but no worries, i'm getting on posting again and once im back on oahu and with my lovely lover of a computer youll be inundated with naked pictures.

i mean, with pictures of my adventures.

most of which are naked.

ho ho!

hows big island? fantastic.

id love to five more details but we're getting ready to head out to farmers market and, well, farmers market is more alluring then sitting typing on a computer.

much love

jess