Steve on Chinese foreign relations: "We passed by tons of embassies. The first one we saw was Afghanistan. Then Pakistan, and South Africa. I joked to Shohrah that I wondered if there were any "good" countries' embassies in China. Then we passed Algeria, Myanmar, a few more African countries. It was quickly apparent that the only countries around there with an embassy were bad guys. We were cracking up, because it was just one dictator hell-hole after another."