Tallamerican is right, I had't thought of that - Golden Week a lousy time to travel in China.

As it is primarily an English-language medium, gokunming's readers are, I think, mostly non-Chinese living in Yunnan. Is there any reason why news items concerning events that occur among us should not be reported on a regular basis? I am not criticizing the editors of gokunming, but simply requesting opinions from readers and gokunming staff about the appropriateness of posting what I guess you might call 'society news' (although I hate the term and what it usually means) here (not necessarily fully-worked-up professional articles).
Example: it happens that a long-time former foreign resident of Jinghong has died and been cremated in Chiang Mai - seems to me some more specifics of this might be appropriate, but I'd like to hear other opinions. And I would not want such a platform to turn into an inane and irresponsible gossip affair (e.g.: "Bob was seen with Alice last night, but we'd thought he was gay", or "Ali, pseudonym Alien, was found on the sidewalk in Haikou at 11AM this morning without his shoes but with a terrible hangover resulting from ferocious and unsuccessful competitive drinking at Moondog in Kunming 2 days earlier. He had no idea how..." etc.) - there is such a thing as a right to a certain amount of personal privacy, exemplified by the provision for the use of online pseudonyms - so it seems to me some regular responsible editing might be a good idea.

Too much traveling, not enough staying in one place/

Don't know, Gompo, was reading mine there as usual 3 weeks ago.
Fox who - Mulder? Perhaps it's a conspiracy.

Buses to Mohan/Boten border crossing from Jinghong are pretty frequent, if you simply want to go in/out with your visa - from south bus station. There is a daily bus to Luang Nam Tha from south bus station at 11 AM (used be be at ten, but I did it about 2 weeks ago) - about an hour & fifteen minutes from the border crossing to Luang Nam Tha. Go there & stay at Manychan Guest House for 70,000 Kip (about 55 rmb) per night (bank directly across street changes money & has ATM machine), eat at the restaurant downstairs with broad open front on the street. Manychan is a nice lady. Bus from there back to Jinghong at 8AM daily.