周六下雨，没有出去成，于是昨天就出去了。

首先叫了一辆rickshaw，跟他说打表但是硬是跟我讲了一路的价格，最后表上是45收了70。然后到了地方我就后悔了，我想去的是这个K.R Market。看照片好像很不错吧，但是实际上那个地方和真正的传说中的印度是一样的——到处是人（包括地上睡的和走路的以及搭车的），趴着的狗和牛，满地的垃圾，牛和乌鸦一起抢垃圾吃……然后路边的小贩还在卖人吃的东西，我走在路上不小心踩到了不知道是牛粪还是腐烂的青草之类的东西，只好再次落荒而逃了（为什么是再次？看这里）。你问我为什么去这种地方？这可是市中心啊！

（想问我为什么照片都这么烂？换了你有心情去在这种情况下取景么。）

然后我觉得既然出来了就继续走走吧，就向着 Lal Bagh 的方向走过去了。在经过了3-4个趴着牛的路口，以及等了10分钟终于过去了的马路后，我终于在一个趴着4头牛的路口改变了主意。为什么？我看了一下自己，

我居然穿着一件红T-shirt！！！

然后我就走到了MG Road去买菜，第一次在这里买到了除了卷心菜之外的绿叶植物——菠菜。回程的rickshaw说什么都要100，还有人拉客，早知道就走几个block再叫车了。然后下车后那个人硬是又多要了10Rs……

失败的一天就这样结束了，好在两个星期后我就回去了。

I want to fly, fly in the sky freely, fly in the sky without sorrow.

这次博士生论坛犹豫了半天，最后还是骑车去了。
去的时候正在雷阵雨，于是在中途被淋在了树下，好在时间不长。不过按照这个路线骑到了阳坊附近的时候那里在修路，不仅被颠的屁股疼，而且还搞得全身都是泥。。。

之后到了山脚下的时候已经5点了，但是折腾了两个小时才上到石门山庄，体力差啊……

不过话说这个路线风景不错，G110辅路风景尤其好，除了修路的那段之外车也很少，上好的骑行路线。

回来的时候就是走的这个了，没有去的时候风景好但是快了不少，下山最快速度44，好像还压到了一条蛇。不过速度快了不少，3个小时就回来了，虽然路上车比较多。

最后附手机拍的照片一张，手机拍的全景图实在不行，折腾了半天ps我也搞不定，就直接放在这里了。

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…

It is hard to write about New York. New York is a geek city, fully diversified. Beijing is another geek city, which is not diversified at all.

I stayed in New York for several times, totally about two weeks. Each of the time, I lived in different places, and taking different types of transportations. Passing through Grand Central, Times Square, and Penn Station with different people, it is like traveling in a new place each time. When going there, I am always feeling sadness around the corner.

The first time of being in New York is around Columbia one day. Then another day at the millennium hotel in times square. The dorms of Columbia is very old, even before the war. I was shocked to see the prototype of elevators there.

This is from the park near Columbia.

Near the park there is a church, Church of St John the Divine.

Actually I was not shocked by the subway system. It was not so bad as said. But they performance on the subway (like dancing in a moving cart) and the sculptures are good.

On the second day I went to Guggenheim, to “show some respect” for Floyd Wright.

And finally, the times square. I think it is worse than the one with the same name in HK. I also met Reena there.

The second time is a short one, I changed a bus in the Chinatown for Philadelphia. It is like living with a lot of unknown immigrants. I can understand none of them although they are Chinese.

The third time is just before Xmas. I slept in koalawjy’s room, and got blamed by the guard. I went to the Metropolitan Museum this time, with theorist.

And also a nice picture in the night for central park.

The fourth time is for SODA. I really don’t think going in group is a good idea. If it is one or two, I think we can just share experiences. But more is just a waste of energy.

The birds on the island are never afraid of people.

And the days were rainy.

And at the last I went to Museum of Modern Arts, and saw the work by the Demaines.

New York, is not quite a good city, but you should try to spend more time in it if you have time.

After Montreal, we went back to the States. It is a long drive from Montreal to Ithaca, and on the border the stupid americans really cost us some time.

We met ida in the college. This is the museum of Cornell.

This one is the sign, Naked Guy.

Ithaca is a small town in the hills. A nice place to live in. The only bad part is it is too far away from the other places. The only public transportation is to New York.

Because it is winter, even the river is frozen.

Thanks to ida, icando, yongyan. This is the last place that could be counted as travel.

We drove to Montreal on the best route in Canada, high way 401. Actually yongyan drove and I was just keeping him awake on the way. We were at 120-160, on the highway.

The first astonishing thing in Montreal is that we saw square traffic lights. The red ones are in squares. I guess it is for color blinds, but not sure.

And on the way to Montreal, yongyan made the most profound remarks. “Once you see the world, there is no way to look backward.” This is most suitable remarks for Montreal, and for the travel. If you don’t move forward, you will be in pain. Seldom any one could suffer that, if you already see what the world outside is like. North Americans are happy, but no one else could live like them.

During the days in Montreal, we didn’t spend much time outside. It was toooo cold. A lot of snows. The major views we took are Habitat 67 and McGill.

Habitat 67 is a set of apartments. They didn’t allow us to get into the apartment. It is astonishing they have elevators. And nice lamps.

And you can see the Montreal city from the apartment.

We also went to the St.  Joseph’s Oratory.

It is said the lamp oils there is great cure for leg problems…

They have a very special elevator room inside.

And we took pictures on top of the oratory.

A similar one was taken on the Mont Royal.

There is a organ inside. We attended a hymn, but they didn’t use it too much.

The next day we went to McGill, this is how I feel about McGill…

Well, actually it is not quite McGill looks like. It is just my feeling. McGill is old-fashioned. Like this…

And I noticed an interesting indian style chapel near McGill. A funny one.

At last, I have to say, there are a lot of regrets here. And thanks yongyan for accommodating and transportation.