飞机终于到了青岛。从飞机上看青岛很漂亮，湛蓝的天空、暗蓝的海水当中嵌着绿宝石一样的海岛，海岸线是黄色的，城市也是高层林立。可惜没时间去玩，就和同行的夏令营营员去啤酒街喝啤酒。喝了绿啤、黑啤、原浆和纯生四个品种，绿啤喝上去蛮清凉，黑啤带些咖啡的醇香，另外两种就不知道有什么区别了。海鲜一般般，不过整条马路上都是人在露天喝酒吃饭，也是一种别样的氛围。吃完饭去了标志性景点“栈桥”，夜里天黑看不见风景，吹吹海风正好醒酒。五四广场也去了，虽说第二天是火炬传递倒没什么人（包括安保），唯有对面的奥帆中心星星点点的灯火。

接下去三天半去威海参加三星夏令营。这里要感谢三星公司、感谢导师和系里的老师、感谢《上海保险》杂志等等，让我在学生生涯的最后还能体验一把summer camp。三星夏令营是典型的“吃苦夏令营”，三个晚上我大概只睡了9个小时，和大家比起来也不算少，真是提前地体验了一把工作节奏。我们要在三天内准备一个舞台剧，要有完整的脚本，配合灯光道具音效等，还要有一分钟的video录制。白天的活动也是满满当当的，比如参观三星工厂，沙滩上的运动会，讲座等。虽然最后没有拿到奖，但是我们组的表演我很满意，尤其是大家把我打扮得太完美了。夏令营收获很大的，主要能是和来自不同大学的很多优秀的同学交流并成为朋友。南大的同学好认真啊，不过还是复旦的比较会玩……

因为日程很满，威海也没有玩。海滨浴场不错，要是能去游泳就更好了。7.24晚十一点半搭乘东航的飞机回到上海，结束了二十天的旅途。有人说，去哪里旅行并不重要，关键是和谁一起去。而这次，两者都是很完美的。在这里，要感谢参加云南徒步的每一个人，感谢SSC第九组的组员，以及一路上帮助过我的每一个熟悉的或者陌生的朋友。因为你们，让这次完美旅行成为我学生时代的圆满句号，值得我铭记一生。

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坐飞机两个手数得过来，碰到延误也不是一次两次，不过这次有点离谱。

昆明机场有点旧，不过人挺多的。到柜台开行程单就被告知飞机延误三个小时，叫我到外面去逛一圈。在KFC里坐了两个小时再进去，登机口处已经坐满了不耐烦的乘客，大家在商量索赔价格和准备采取的措施。期间，有工作人员来交涉过两次，双方没达成一致，不过我们每人发到了一听可乐和一份盒饭。飞机在迟到五个小时后到来，登机前每人发到一张道歉信，答应赔200块，但要把登机牌寄过去。大家立马就不干了，站在座位，飞机无法起飞。奥运筹备期间，警察马上上来，但调解无效，不见RMB不坐下。这样拖到九点多，昆明开始下暴雨，跑道无法起飞。又折腾了两个小时，说航班取消，把我们放下飞机。大部分人又回到了机场，还有一小部分人继续霸机。在机场又呆了一个多小时，我们才乘着借调的公共汽车去了酒店，睡下已经两点了。整个过程中，航空公司工作人员态度都很差，乘客在没有组织的情况下都处在无序状态。早上，送我们去机场的班车再度迟到，乘客到了机场后直扑柜台，我也去发泄情绪了。还好，这次态度比较好，虽然动作还是很慢，我们终于在中午登上了机。大家也放弃了和航空公司的纠缠，只想早点落地。因为青岛机场晚上一点关闭，因为空乘至少要休息八小时，因为一小部分乘客在武警的干涉下才肯放弃霸机（这部分人还是要感谢一下的），因为这一系列的“因为”，所以飞机在延误23小时候后才起飞，比预计时间晚了23小时45分后到达目的地。  

通过朋友查到了民航总局关于飞机延误的赔偿文件，发扬中国法规制定的传统，写得很含糊。这样做其实在人为制造矛盾。机场建设费50块钱写得很清楚，弄个公式，延误几个小时算一下应该也不复杂吧。增加点航空公司的成本算什么，他们一套衣服做得便宜点就行了。况且，误点率高的航空公司应该多赔点钱，赔到公司破产不飞最好，谁叫你误点的。我真的很气愤，接近24个小时啊，我错过了青岛一日游的机会还好，但是同行的乘客错过面试，错过生意，很大的损失啊。所谓有得必有失，我得到了300块钱，四星级酒店半个晚上，对我这个时薪10块intern level的，倒也不是不可接受，而且成为了旅途中“难忘”的插曲。通过这次经历，我觉得碰到飞机延误还是和航空公司配合点好，毕竟我们无法可依。和航空公司对着干，虽然拿到多一点钱，但是飞机上有急事的乘客就耽误了。最后提醒大家一定要慎重，不到万不得已，不要坐山东航空的飞机，他们的飞机是会误点一天的。

徒步结束，接下来还是旅游，大理和昆明。

大理的古城是有有一番风味的。也是商店密布、酒肆林立，但是和丽江比起来更生活话一点。除了丽江的式样，还有“农贸市场”、大排档、洋人街、梧桐洋房等，适合闲逛、也适合消费。景点方面，三塔、天龙八部影视城、蝴蝶泉等门票都太贵，苍山洱海还是值得推荐的。天很蓝，湖面很开阔，而远处的苍山很高大。坐车绕洱海一圈，经过别墅区，那里的view很赞。三道茶也是要尝的，虽然“二甜”太甜了，“三回味”回味有点怪，只有“一苦”比较像茶。大理吃的东西不错，特色的大理臭豆腐，靠海吃海，可以吃到很多鱼。丽江的食物有点偏西藏风味，而大理更多元。我们晚上出去吃了street food，一桌人烧烤吃得其乐融融。

昆明应该用crazy形容，交通无比拥挤，大街上总是有那么多人，旅游市场也挺混乱的。住的地方推荐hump hostel，就在碧马金鸡坊，绝对的市中心，走五分钟就到步行街。一晚最便宜的只要25，标准的青旅设施。不好的地方是靠近主干道，晚上睡觉时很吵，其中也有青旅露天酒吧的影响。景点去了西山龙门，石林，大观楼，博物馆。龙门在西山森林公园顶上，有一些石刻和小石林，从上面眺望滇池，可以清楚地看到中国第六大湖被污染的样子。石林是必去的，140的门票不便宜，但是喀斯特地形的鬼斧神工还是要赞的。大观楼在整修，大观楼公园其他就没什么可看的了。著名的小吃当属米线，不过这个好像是当饭吃的，每天都吃我还是抗拒的。早饭有一种米饼包土豆丝我很喜欢，正餐川味更浓一点，有点辣。说昆明crazy还因为我碰到了大号的航班延误，请听下回分解。

Not over Jason Lezak’s 32-year-old body.

Lezak, swimming the anchor leg of the United States’ 4x100-meter freestyle relay, hit the water a half-second after Alain Bernard of France, who came into the race as the world-record holder in the 100-meter freestyle.

“I knew I was going to have to swim out of my mind,” Lezak said, adding, “I had more adrenaline going than I’ve ever had in my life.”

Dragging off Bernard, who was hugging the lane line that separated them, Lezak made up ground, but with 25 meters remaining it appeared as if he would run out of pool. Trailing Bernard by half a body length, Lezak put his head down and surged to the wall.

A three-time Olympian, Lezak had been in this predicament before. He anchored the American 4x100 relay teams at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics that came up short. This time, he was part of a photo finish.

When the water settled, the giant video scoreboard showed that Lezak had out-touched Bernard by 0.08 of a second. Phelps’s pursuit of Mark Spitz’s record of seven swimming gold medals in one Olympics remained alive with a little help from his mates. Lezak’s split of 46.06 seconds was the fastest anchor leg ever, by 0.73, and his personal best by over 1.2 seconds.

“His last 50 meters were absolutely incredible,” Phelps said. “He had a perfect finish.”

After Lezak touched, Phelps, who swam the first leg, raised his arms and let out a primal scream. Garrett Weber-Gale, who swam second, came up from behind him and swallowed him in a hug.

The United States was timed in 3 minutes 8.24 seconds, shattering by nearly four seconds the world record that its B team had set the previous night. France won the silver in 3:08.32. Australia, benefiting from a world-record setting lead-off swim of 47.24 from Eamon Sullivan, was third.

Bernard, who in a matter of minutes lost the 100 world record to Sullivan and the relay gold to Lezak, was bereft. He broke down in tears in the pool and later in the mixed zone.

His teammate, Frederick Bousquet, who split a blistering 46.63 on the third leg, said, “We believed in the gold medal until the end.” He added, “The touch made the difference and experience overcame talent.”

Though not well-known outside of swimming circles, Lezak, a native Southern Californian, has a reputation in USA Swimming for being the Mariano Rivera of sprinters. “Jason is the most phenomenal closer I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Cullen Jones, who swam the third leg.

After making the turn, Lezak said he momentarily lost the courage of his convictions. Bernard had a 0.6 of a second lead and Lezak was not sure he could reel him in. “I’m not going to lie,” he said. “The thought really crossed my mind for a split-second, ‘There’s no way.’ ”

Then he reminded himself that he was representing his country and this was the Olympics and he was not getting any younger so he had to make the most of this chance. “In five seconds I was thinking all these things,” Lezak said. “And I got a super charge.”

With his surge, Lezak kept alive Phelps’s drive to break Spitz’s record and collect a million-dollar bonus from Speedo. Asked if he would demand a cut if Phelps succeeds, Lezak grinned and joked, “We’ve already talked about that.”

Phelps, 23, was timed in 47.51 on the first leg, an American record, nearly half a second faster than he clocked at the United States Olympic trials but behind Sullivan's 47.24. Only the first relay leg can qualify for records because it comes with a traditional standing start. Phelps joined his teammates in the ready room with one lackluster morning swim behind him.

In the semifinals of the 200-meter freestyle, the second of his five individual events, Phelps never held the lead in his heat, botched his finish and qualified fourth with a time that was two seconds slower than what he clocked at the trials in July and one second slower than his target number.

“I just wanted to save as much energy as I could for the relay,” Phelps said afterward, between labored breaths.

He and his teammates knew they had to be at their absolute best if they were to hold off the world, which has gotten the best of the Americans in the past two Olympics. As thunder rumbled over the bubble-wrap ceiling of the National Aquatics Center, Phelps stepped to the blocks. The quartet of Nathan Adrian, Jones, Ben Wildman-Tobriner and Matt Grevers gave Phelps and Co. the swimming equivalent of the pole position — Lane 4, in the middle of the pool — by qualifying first in the heats Sunday night. In the process, they gave everybody the time to shoot for, eclipsing by 0.23 of a second the world record with a clocking of 3 minutes 12.23 seconds.

The squads from France and Australia also finished under the existing record of 3:12.46, setting up a final delivered all the bang of a fireworks show.

At the United States Olympic trials in July, Lezak, Weber-Gale and Phelps posted sub-48 second swims, which until the Games had been matched this year by only two others — Bernard and Sullivan.

Lezak, Weber-Gale and Phelps sat out the preliminaries to conserve energy. In what proved to be a competition within the competition, the four Americans who did swim were essentially racing one another for the opportunity to team with Lezak, Weber-Gale and Phelps in the final.

Jones, a Bronx native who grew up in New Jersey, won the honors by clocking the fastest split, a 47.61 on the second leg. In 2006, Jones became the first African-American to break a long-course world record when he was part of the United States relay team that set the global mark that fell Sunday night.

All eyes Monday were on Phelps, but the pressure was on the French, who had never won a medal in the event and were trying to win their country’s first swimming relay gold.

In the heats, the French had rested their two fastest swimmers, Bernard, who broke the world record in the 100 freestyle twice in March, and Fabien Gilot, who has the sixth-fastest time in the world this year.

The uncertainty of the outcome was a decided departure from 1972, when Spitz counted three relays among his seven golds. In those days, United States dominance meant there was never much drama in the relays. Going into the ’72 Munich Games, the Americans had won every Olympic gold awarded in the 4x100 freestyle and medley relays and 8 of 13 in the 4x200 freestyle.

Since then, the rest of the world since has caught up to the United States, the globalization of the sport reflected most dramatically in the relays. In 2000, the Americans were upset by Australia in the 4x100 freestyle, and in 2004 they finished third behind South Africa — which returned for its defense unchanged from 2004 — and the Netherlands.

Returning the Olympic crown in the event to the United States was a high priority, Phelps said. “A couple of days ago we had a guys-only meeting where we shared some stories going back and forth about the hopes we have for this meet,” he said.

The French had made their hopes public. Their trash talking might have been their undoing; it motivated the Americans. “It fired me up more than anything else,” Phelps said.

However many more Olympic medals Phelps wins, his legacy is secure and so, now, is Lezak’s. “I just happened to have the swim of my life at the right time,” Lezak said.

离开飞来寺，我们继续向北，目的地是此行的重点——雨崩村。前面的旅行都可以称作“旅游”，下面的就要称为“徒步”了。雨崩不通汽车，需要从西当爬山进去，我们一行人走了6个小时。不过那里也算成熟的徒步景点，沿途可以补给。后面几天也都在走路，分别去了神瀑、冰湖（路过大本营）、还有一天出来。

雨崩像一个世外桃源，在群山和草地之中搭着几十间房子，远处的雪山在云雾的包围中若隐若现。那里条件不好，手机信号没有，用电和热水也有点困难。但相应的，景色也是非凡的。我们在茂密的森林中穿行，旁边有冰川融水汇集的潺潺溪流，路边的野花不经意的开着。再走得高点，洁白的雪山映入眼帘。在大本营午餐时，不时看到远处的雪崩，非常壮观。想当初，93年中日联合登山队在大本营遭遇雪崩，尽数遇难。而现在大本营搭起了小木屋，而且山花烂漫，不禁让人感到沧海桑田（我的第一感是global warming）。神瀑是冰雪融化后的雪水冲下断崖，飞流直下，充满了气势。按照藏族风俗，神瀑的水是神水，能洗去一切罪恶，涤荡心灵。大家毫不犹豫地冲了进去，水比十二级台风带来的暴雨大多了，但淋了一身，唯一个“爽”字。冰湖相对而言并不好看，感觉不值来回两个小时的攀爬。雨崩的远足，让人忘记了尘世的烦恼，完全沉浸于自然之中。而自然风光，让一切语言的形容失色，留下的只有赞叹。

四天的徒步是艰辛的，但艰辛的旅途正好成为感情的催化剂，团队的couple数double了一下。不幸没有结成couple的同志（如我）也有另外的放松方式，晚上的“七人找朋友”打了昏天黑地，连战了五天都觉得不过瘾。我们七个人可以起个外号——全真七子，最后还是马道长称雄。还有“吹牛”结合国王游戏，我比较不厚道地赢了两把，后来才发现关键是国王游戏。最后的束河散伙饭尝了烤乳猪，有人喝醉了，感情的释放和宣泄是此行徒步的完美句号。

from iht

BEIJING: With fireworks brightening the sky that had been gloomy all day, the lucky eights were finally aligned for China's first staging of the Olympic Games on Friday night, and 2,008 drummers were soon pounding on the traditional percussion instrument, the "fou," and singing: "Friends have come from afar, and how happy we are."

It was a fine Confucian sentiment, but one not always shared by the visitors from afar as these deeply symbolic Olympics approached.

It has been difficult for many outsiders to find quite the right tone, alternating between a desire to respect China's re-emergence and organizational efforts and a desire to seize the opportunity to remind, even berate, China about human rights, the environment, Darfur, allegedly underage athletes and a checklist of other big and small rubbing points.

But as the thousands of drums were pounded and then began flashing with lights - intermittently illuminating the interior of the massive Bird's Nest Stadium, with its 91,000 seats - it seemed the polite and right thing to put the surrounding issues aside for an hour or two and see what director Zhang Yimou and a bustling, increasingly proud nation of 1.3 billion people could conjure to make the now-familiar ritual of the Olympic Opening Ceremony feel fresh.

The answer was plenty, beginning with the five interlocking, glowing Olympic rings that first appeared flat on the ground at the center of the stadium's infield and then gradually peeled off and upward: luminous in the humid air.

That set the tone for a spectacle when the earthbound often ended up looking weightless: no one more spectacularly than Li Ning, the former Olympic gymnast turned sportswear impresario, who was yanked skyward by wires and then went on the jog of the century along the wide inner rim of the roof with the torch in hand before lighting the cauldron.

Li's reality-bending, gravity-flouting lap was the image that will linger from Friday night, just like the Spanish archer Antonio Rebollo's arrow shot that ignited the cauldron in Barcelona at the 1992 Games.

But there was more to marvel at on a night when theatrical elements were often not as they first appeared and when the emphasis was often on China's traditional culture, with the notable exception of the space-suited astronauts who soared high above the stadium floor as a reminder that China's ambitions are not just global.

One could quibble with the sound system in the stadium and with a certain loss of thematic momentum in the latter stages that Athens's back-to-the-dawn Olympic ceremony in 2004 did not suffer. But the set pieces in Beijing were routinely wondrous.

There was a giant Chinese scroll that was unrolled at center stage, leaving a massive sheet of blank paper upon which dancers who looked more like contortionists drew characters in ink wash. In the same decidedly multipurpose space, movable type would later appear: a much larger-than-life, three-dimensional keyboard that would rise and fall abruptly - with a performer under each of the 897 blocks - to form characters, then a simulation of the Great Wall.

There were tributes to Chinese opera, to the Silk Road and a human ode to the Bird's Nest Stadium formed by hundreds of performers. It was ceremony on a grand scale, befitting the world's most populous nation, one that raised the bar with its 15,000 performers and reminded the tens of millions watching worldwide that China has absolutely no shortage of man (or woman) power.

But the low-tech trick that will stick with this hot and sticky correspondent came early. When the Chinese flag was raised to the top of its designated pole shortly after the 8 p.m. fireworks, the flag was soon flapping in a machine-generated wind as if it were on top of Mount Everest, or Mount Qomolangma, as the Chinese call it).

A stiff breeze was indeed a false promise on a torrid, still night when it was possible for the average fan to sweat like a marathon runner by simply remaining in a seat. The dignitaries' box, filled with world leaders and International Olympic Committee officials, looked more like a scene from the royal box at a Spanish bullfight, with all the fans that were fluttering. The Olympians, once they had filed in, kept themselves cool by flapping their plastic credentials in front of their faces.

It was hard not to pity them despite all their enthusiasm. You could put aside the politics for a night for the sake of politesse, but it was much harder to put aside the tough conditions in which the world's best athletes will be asked to compete over the next 16 days and nights.

接下去游玩的景点有虎跳峡，香格里拉，松赞林寺、金沙江大拐弯。简单说来，虎跳峡就是深山高峡激流，但波涛汹涌、巨浪滔天等无法形容它的气势，非要亲眼观看不可。它和黄河壶口瀑布不同，壶口瀑布是开阔的，两旁的黄色和水的黄色给人雄浑的感觉。而虎跳峡的颜色更丰富，流水不惧高山的阻隔向下奔流，显出一往无前的精神。香格里拉有世界上最大的转金轮，也有四方街和古城，不过此行的亮点是酒吧和藏人音乐。同行的摄影师老马带我们去了一家安静的藏人音乐酒吧，听藏人歌唱。平时我不会听藏族音乐的，但去了藏区，听他们唱歌，看他们手舞足蹈，特别有感觉。然后是有“小布达拉宫”之称的松赞林寺，挺有气势。布局和汉族的寺庙完全不同，有楼梯可以上楼。其中有一个大殿是不透光的，里面点了很多蜡烛，有些神秘主义色彩，宗教和神是值得敬畏的。金沙江大拐弯处光秃秃的，没有树，给人一种沧桑感。然而omega的形状很漂亮，很完美，不得不惊叹大自然的鬼斧神工。路上最高经过海拔4200米，没什么高反，看着群山反而觉得心胸开阔。

继续往前，到了奔子栏，再往前是德钦县城，那里就离梅里雪山很近了。晚上入住飞来寺，一个缺水的地方，连刷牙的水都没有，是此行条件最差的住宿，但为了看梅里雪山也值了。我们运气特别好，有幸目睹阳光照耀下的梅里雪山卡瓦博格主峰。红黄蓝白，一副绝美的图画。那一刻，仿佛我们每个人的心灵也得到了净化。看看路上飘动的经幡，还有圣洁的雪山，对自然又多了一份崇敬之情。我们是卑微渺小的，不管是精神世界还是自然界，都那么博大精深。我们需要遵守他们的法则，而不是相反的。