一般来说,看起来越正常的人,总有点不正常的事情.
但是,我最近发现接触的事情都是不正常的.
这实在是太要人崩溃了.
我觉得我应该好好的忏悔一下行事的方式!

The last travel, and the one which is only for traveling, is the trip to the Changbai Mt. For people living in the northeast, it is a legendary mountain. For the Tianchi, also for the massive underground rivers and ginseng inside.

Before I went to the mountain, I went to Dandong first for stupid rules in the train system. It is also on the boarder of China and North Korea. Someone said the contrast on the border is very clear in the night. Because North Korea doesn’t have enough power to light in the night, so it is like black and white.

On the way to the Changbai Mt I met a couple of locals on the train. They are very hospitable. They even invite me for the lunch on the arriving day. Anyway the ones ran the businesses there are not so kind.

On the mountain there were cold and snow. It is like always. The Tianchi (Heaven Lake) is just a pile of frozen ice with a lot of snow covering the top.

You can hardly see any plants there. It is tundra.

After that one of us is sick immediately. So I have to visit most of the rest places with sunnymonkey alone. And what we saw most… is snow. There are snows everywhere. If you die in the snow, no one will discover you.

And the underground river.

Frozen waterfalls.

Hot springs. Some birds will wash themselves in the hot spring!

And the frozen tunnel. It is under the snow.

Outside the tunnel… you can see how thick the snow is.

The larger waterfall, also frozen.

We are on the way to the underground forest, which grows after the eruption of the volcano movement.

Who knows what are the red spots?

The underground forest. It is in the valley. But the snow was heavy, so no good photos.

After that sunnymonkey and purplesnow left for the airport. But I still spent some time around. Like the lumber mill.

Also some time inside a pine forest. It is a special kind of pinus sylvestris.

This is the end of my travel in winter. And it is the end of the series. I am hoping I can get some more in the summer.

The way back to Shenyang is hard. The planes delayed a lot. So I stayed one night at the Beijing airport. And the plane back to Shenyang will stop once in the middle. In a very small airport with single lane.

This “carefully slide” sign is interesting.

And traditional chinese things on the plane, quite localized.

I didn’t stay home for long. sunnymonkey in the second week. We went to the cast museum.

There were no one there except us… it is lucky that’s in the day.

I thought I met a lot of these things when I was little. But not too much now. There are no such kind of things in the city of Shenyang now.

MIT and Harvard are the very places you need to visit in Boston. It is my base of staying in the US. Although I found that I still unfamiliar with it at last. In the middle of the Harvard bridge there is painted “Half way to hell”, where the hell is MIT. You can google this by yourself.

MIT is a typical engineer school. There are liquid nitrogen bottles everywhere. Not to mention the accelerator, nuclear reactor and the wind tunnel not far from my office.

I was astonished that there is a painting about the “Blind Men and Elephant” story. For you want to check it out, it should be on the way to the Hayden Library.

Harvard, it is said to be. And some others say it isn’t. But who cares? Only his foot matters.

MIT Museum is an interesting place, with a lot of weird art works and non-art works.

Stata Center more serves as a landmark in MIT.

And inside are nerds…

They also have other weird buildings like the green building. I really can’t appreciate the designer.

Harvard looks much nicer, especially in the fall.

From the main street, I often go to the Royal East, for supper.

The view form my office is like this. Anyway, it is far away…

I stayed there for most of the time, but I didn’t take much photos about it. It is hard to say something about Boston, because I live here but not a traveler.

This is the sign around the first place I lived. It is called Jaimaca Plain. It is not Jaimaca, but a district of high crime rate, by crime I mean gunshot. So when I saw the sign, I felt quite cold.

The second place I live is actually on the border of Somerville and Cambridge. Yes, I never lived in Boston.

The last residence of mine is far in the Porter Square, even further than Harvard. In the winter, there are a lot of snow.

This is the harbor of Boston.

Boston is an old city. If compared to Beijing, it is really old. Because what we do in China is rebuild after destroy, but here you need to report to the government if you want to change the color of your house.

The acorn street often appear on the postcards of Boston. Anyway it is not so good at the end of the fall.

I also went to the Cleveland Circle at that time. It will cost you about one hour on the green line. There is a reservoir there. It is nice when the weather is nice. But somewhat cold in the fall.

The Quincy Market is the place for traditional Boston foods. Actually, a lot of Italian foods. And there are a lot of interesting things near thanksgiving. But I didn’t have much time on it.

The MIT/Kendall station is an old one. As the subway system was built before 1900, and the Kendall station is one among the first 3 stations. The figures on the wall is the history of MIT.

On the street you can see what you can see in a normal American city. Like the “fancy” westunion.

At the North End you can have a lot of restaurants of Italians. Anyway it is expensive. And you need to wait for a long time (we waited 2 hours!). I always wonder why Americans like to wait outside of the bars for hours? Even in China people don’t like to wait in a queue, even it is something “necessary”. Maybe they just don’t have choices.

I noticed this right at the center of Boston. Note, it is the very CENTER of Boston.

And also the city hall of Boston. I thought they should have more arts on that.

This photo around Fenway is more like a modern city, rendering the loneliness of people in the modern city.

I spent an afternoon in the Museum of Fine Arts.

This graffiti on the way to museum is very interesting. Read the letters not so clear: but not my life.

I discovered a board game which is played in Egypt thousands of years ago.

And the aquarium. I had been there twice. Once for visiting. Another for the CSAIL party. The one who designed the aquarium is the one who designed Stata Center.

I wish I could walk on the way…