Hangover #1 and I'm on a Damn Ship 3/23/11

I woke up feeling good which was surprising since we drank a bottle of vodka, beer, and sweet bubbly wine. We only had 30 min to walk around a little port town before we continued down the Yangtze to go on a smaller boat ride down the gorges. We hopped on a tug boat then onto smaller rickety boats. They were definitely questionable- you could see the water on the floor of the boat. The pictures of the tour showed guys pulling boat along the river in their bare asses- we had none of that. The locals paddled down the river so we could see more of the same gorges. Then they pulled us along the bank so we could experience what it was like back in the day when it was too shallow to paddle- not really the same affect but whatever. On the way back there was a hanging coffin on a vertical ledge- no idea how they got that there.

We came back for dinner and my head was kickin. I went to the clinic to get some aspirin and the Dr. convinced me to get acupuncture. He stuck some needles in my leg and left me there wondering how long I was going to lay there. Another dude came in and gave my head a massage. I got up feeling a little bit better. I still had a headache which was amplified when they charged me 620 Yuan ($100). WTF? There I was pissed, hungover, tired of being pushed around (literally), wanting some good food, and cranky as hell. Before I passed out for the evening we came to the 3 Gorges Dam and the boat went through the first of the five locks. It’s so massive- very impressive to watch. They fit 6 huge ships in one lock and remove the water so we were lowered 20 meters in 8 minutes. Enough excitement for one day.