{"id":336,"date":"2013-08-22T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=336"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T09:23:43","slug":"mekong-expedition-july-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Mekong expedition &#8211; July 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All this week I don\u2019t think of my mother, brother, sister. Not of my father. Not of lovers past and present. Not of friends. Not of&nbsp;&nbsp;Bach or Rush. Not of favorite books. Not of sports results. Not of&nbsp;&nbsp;health worries that I am prone to. Not of upcoming trips. I think of nobody, of nothing that constitutes life for me normally. And I am not even aware I don\u2019t think of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is just this focus. Where to put my feet? Enough food in our day packs? When Luciano is ahead making sure I stay close; when I am ahead looking around to see if he stays close. What is the weather going to do? How to stay safe from nomads\u2019 guard dogs? And if not these questions, I feel my feet hurting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We reach the source at Guosongmucha. Located lower than Jifu, and the tributary flowing from here is a bit shorter than the Gaodepu that starts at Jifu. But it is more dramatic, its glaciers are more impressive and more water is running more forceful here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Guosongmucha-rechter-gletsjer-arm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Guosongmucha-rechter-gletsjer-arm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Guosongmucha-rechter-gletsjer-arm-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/melting-glacier-Guosongmucha.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/melting-glacier-Guosongmucha.jpg 350w, https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/melting-glacier-Guosongmucha-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All this week I don\u2019t think of my mother, brother, sister. Not of my father. Not of lovers past and present. Not of friends. Not of&nbsp;&nbsp;Bach or Rush. Not of favorite books. Not of sports results. Not of&nbsp;&nbsp;health worries that I am prone to. Not of upcoming trips. I think of nobody, of nothing that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mekong expedition &#8211; July 13&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,156],"tags":[16,38,41,47,46,15],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chin-eng","category-mekong-english","tag-china","tag-gaodepu","tag-mekong-source","tag-mount-guosongmucha","tag-mount-jifu","tag-qinghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}