There’ve been quite a few things going on here in China, and in Xi’an for that matter that seem perhaps trivial for their own spell-binding post, but put them all together and I guess we’ve got something. So let’s get started.

Shoes

The shoes I brought here are starting to get rather worn out with all the walking I do nearly every day. So I decided I’d look into buying a new pair of shoes, the Chinese brands I’ve seen like Li-Ning, and Erke looked like they had some cool stuff. No dice. I wear size 12-13 depending on brand, which equates to 46-47 in Chinese (Euro sizes), and the Chinese brands don’t carry or even make anything larger than size 44. So I started looking at all the shoe stores, turns out, I’m a freak of nature. I really began to feel the pain my good friend Chris endures finding his size 15 shoes. Most of the shoe stores didn’t just have the shoes sitting out in boxes so I’d have to ask if they had my size, which was almost universally no. Pretty soon you just get tired of asking, and think “just show me what you DO have in 46 and let me pick from those!”. Long story short, I managed to find a pair of New Balance shoes in size 45 that must’ve ran big, because they fit nicely. Green, ¥327? Sold.

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