#neonwhales

I've just returned from a trip to Sanya in Hainan. The journey there was adventure enough; Cade and I stayed up the whole night before our trek so we could sleep through the eleven hour train ride (which was completely successful). We boarded a charter bus at six in the morning to get to Guangzhou by nine to make our train to Haikou. Unfortunately the train was late and we missed our connecting train from Haikou to Sanya. Not willing to camp out in the train station for five hours, we splurged on a cab and found ourselves at our hostel at 4:00 in the morning after a three hour ride, and twenty-two hours of traveling. I mumbled apologies to the other vacationers staying in my room that I 

awoke at that unholy hour, just so relieved to rest my bones.

Sanya was an experience, although I spent much more than I would have liked, I have no regrets from the trip. I sprinted for a train, bought pearls, ate delicious street food, watched local artists, scuba dived, met some people from my home state, pool hopped, hiked to a lighthouse in the middle of the night, played in the ocean, collected coral, bought tea, skinny dipped, slept on a filthy train, and rambled around. Out of everything, my favorite time was spent sitting on the beach under the light of the moon, talking all night with good friends. 

It feels good to be back in Zhongshan, it has never felt more like home.