A porn VCD on some random road in rural China. These weren't widespread in North America but had replaced VHS in the rest of the world from the mid 90s until the introduction of DVDs. Since each CD only held 650MB of data, for the typical movie you had to get off the couch and put a second disk into your VCD player. Pretty interesting. Anyway, pornography is illegal in China so it was definitely a surprise to turn the CD over and see the image of an erotically posed woman. The disk had been run over a few times and was pretty scratched up, but being a man half way through a four month solo tour, I threw that thing into my saddle bag. About a week later I popped into an internet cafe and what do you know, about half the content was still viewable. Let me just say that it was pretty different from the typcal stuff you see on the internet, more like old school 70s porn, but without the crazy haircuts and jazz music.

Also while on tour in China, I once rode past a pantless homeless guy, passed out sitting in the emergency lane against the barrier. He had a jacket on his torso, but below, his junk was hanging out. This was in the middle of nowhere, no idea.

Not on tour this time, but on a weekend in Shanghai. I saw a large crowed gathered at the bank of a canal, watching a policeman on a boat trying to hook a dead body out of the water.