Sitting on an Astroturf balcony on the edge of the ship with my face lit up by the neon glow of my laptop. Bad cabaret performances fade through the mountains…mountains that know so much more than they are prepared to let on. Welcome to the Yangtze. A place so steeped in history, a 2000 year old cliff hanging coffin is just part of the décor. A river that in just 2 weeks will rise 25 feet because of the controversial dam upstream. A river as much natural wonder as man made marvel. It’s a rare but special place of contradiction. And if my life was a river right now, it would definitely be this one.