http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ These are people who have, in one way or another, helped Dan out with The Trip. Do something nice for Dan, and your name will appear here too! en-us dan@danwashburn.com 2005-05-03T19:42:03+08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2005_05.php "Please do not thank me or contact me or put me on your sponsor list. You have a super blog. I look forward to reading it each day." I hope it's OK if I thank you anonymously ... because, here it comes ... Thanks! 1408@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2005-05-03T19:42:03+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2005_05.php It actually took me more than a month to notice this donation -- the flow of money has, understandably, slowed since The Trip, so I rarely check my PayPal account -- so I was rather late in thanking Steve, and even later in posting his name on this list. Steve went to high school with Big Daddy and had the misfortune of inheriting two fantasy baseball teams I used to run in a rather fanatically in-depth league run by baseball genius Scott Rex. Thanks, Steve! 1406@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2005-05-03T19:39:05+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2005_02.php This fine family housed, fed and funded me while I hammered out a 50-page book proposal in Hawaii. They even let me babysit! 1261@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2005-02-15T17:54:41+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_12.php From two very nice Shanghai residents: "We know your story through the newspaper Shanghai Shen Jiang Dao Bao. We admire your spirit and I'm glad that you love China. So we'd like to support your trip." Thanks guys! Now, how can I get a copy of this newspaper story? 984@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-12-10T15:43:05+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php In addition to taking pity on poor traveling writers, James, Cory and Kevin run a pretty slick art reproduction company in Xiamen. Please, please, please do some Christmas shopping at their site ... so I don't feel so bad for freeloading at their home and office for five days in Xiamen. Now you can own famous paintings like The Scream without having to steal them. Visit oceansbridge.com now! (Thanks to Andrea See for introducing me to these guys. Check out Andrea at serialdeviant.org and whatsonxiamen.com.) 939@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-22T13:58:12+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php This Guangdong native is a recent college grad and works as both a life insurance salesman and an interpreter for an Israeli import/export company. He and his family live above a curtain shop they run in Guangzhou. They invited me over for dinner and introduced me to kong-fu tea. (Thanks to hospitailtyclub.com for hooking me up with Lin Xiao.) 938@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-22T13:35:47+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php Longtime reader, first-time sponsor. Since he was so generous, I will let the fact that he refers to the New York Yankees as the "Evil Empire" slide. Thanks Doug! 937@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-22T13:22:18+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php This old friend from Shanghai took me out for a big, expensive dinner in Guangzhou -- and he treated me to cockroaches, turtles and scorpions. What a thoughtful friend! 934@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-20T18:48:44+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php Percussionist for the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Tony hooked me up with all the essentials: a place to sleep, a place to get a massage, satellite television and an ADSL internet connection. He also let me eat his Oreo cookies. Oh yeah, he went to some music school named Juilliard. I know -- I've never heard of it, either. (Special thanks to Frances for introducing me to Tony!) 933@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-20T18:37:52+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php The bubbly Vietnamese trumpet player for the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra gave me one of the bedrooms in his three-bedroom apartment. He also did my laundry -- and saw me off at the train station when I left. And I'm still not sure if he knows exactly who the hell I am. Tuan said he believes in karma: If he does something nice for a stranger, a stranger will do something nice for him. You had better be nice to Tuan -- he almost became a professional martial artist. 932@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-20T17:59:49+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php The most powerful couple at Elizabethtown College sent me a little love from Lancaster County. They told me to use the money to get a shower. Guys, I swear: It's the local cows that you smell, not me. Thanks Jennie, Kent and Martha! 923@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-16T03:10:52+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php A great man in Guizhou. Henry, a CITS tour guide, made sure my five days in his province were full of fun. And he made me -- pretty much a total stranger -- the first friend invited to live in his parents' home. Henry's a man with a big heart. (Special thanks to the fine people at wildchina.com for hooking me up with Henry.) 922@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-16T02:51:44+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php This married couple let me live along with their rather large family in their home-on-stilts in Bayi Village in Yunnan Province's tropical Xishuangbanna region. Members of the hani (or ahka) minority, they showed me first-hand how to milk rubber sap from rubber trees ... and they fed me some of the best food I've had on this trip. 921@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-16T02:43:32+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php "When Jenny is happy, Jenny laughs." The friendliest girl in Yunnan, Jenny let me live with her family -- rubber tree farmers -- down in Xishuangbanna. 920@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-16T02:33:03+08:00 http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/archives/2004_11.php The best damn English teachers in China have taken their skillz to the west side. I lived with these two in Shanghai. And now they let me live with them in Kunming. Great friends. Great floor to sleep on. (And they took great care of me when I was laid up with food poisoning.) 919@http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/sponsors/ 2004-11-16T02:24:16+08:00