Let me draw you a word picture, in case the Guilin reference drew a blank. Imagine you’re in a kids’ sandbox, with somewhat deep sand, say 10 inches.
Imagine taking several U.S. style footballs and screwing a pointed end of each straight down into the sand until perhaps just over half the football is above ground. Finally, imagine the sand is the terrain or sea, and the footballs sticking up are craggy mountains several hundred feet high.
That is what both Guilin and this region of Vietnam look like to me. You’ve seen this scenery in James Bond films set in the Orient, maybe Man with a Golden Gun. it is very unusual and dramatic. I expect the last time I saw it in a film was in the recent Laura Croft, Tomb Raider remake.
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I took a quick scan of the various news outlets I check yesterday, trying to get a handle on election trends. If you’ve tried it you know you get really mixed messages. Drudge was pessimistic about GOP chances, RCP seemed slightly optimistic.My conclusion: nobody is sure and everybody is writing about what they hope will happen. Trump has truly upended conventional political wisdom in so many ways. The last time this happened was during the reign of Ronaldus Magnus, aka President Reagan.
