Bike Tracks

Luizhous to Binyang Day 300 I never got to Binyang, but I am compelled to relate the following story. The riders arrived to find a shortage of rooms. The town was small and not accustomed to having westerners visit. The TK&A group was negotiating to find more hotel rooms. (It was a good thing 19 […]

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Rong’an to Liuzhou Day 299 The DRG warned us today the first 53 kilometers were through construction. TK&A would be busing the cyclists through this area, because it was that bad. We loaded up the Kristal buses and set out. We hit construction shortly before getting out of the city. It was a mess. The […]

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Longsheng to Rong’an Day 298 It was the first day of the Kristal buses riding the road. Since the weather was lovely, most of the “Kristal Customers” were cycling, so the buses to Marco’s dismay were barely half full. I reminded him had already been paid and he need not worry about it! Good grief, […]

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Guilin to Longsheng Day 296 After a rainy day off and a miserable rainy riding day the day before, I was not thrilled at the aspect of riding yet another day in the rain. I took a poll of a few folks and determined I could fill a bus with people who agreed with me. […]

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Yangshou to Guilin Day 294 If you ever have to be stuck in China during the rain Yangshou is the place to be. I enjoyed a wonderful American breakfast while sitting in front of a “high speed” modem computer, watching the rain pour off the umbrellas outside. It was about as close to heaven as […]

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Zhongshan to Yangshuo Day 292 While writing postcards tonight, I tried to pinpoint what it was about China that is so unusual. I both love and hate it, the countryside is different and beautiful while at the same time primitive and dirty. I made a deal with myself, that if China conditions were so bad, […]

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Xindu to Zhongshan Day 291 The night was long, but my sleep was short. All night I felt ants on me and the noise from the streets was unbelievable loud. The hotel bed was simply a plywood board covered with a sheet. It was a harder surface to sleep on, than the ground. The windowless […]

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Wuzhou to Xindu Day 290 Today’s title is “The Day of 10,000 Hello’s!” The streets were lined with humanity all day long, from the city to the country and back to the city again. The children were the happiest and they loudest, shouting at us as we rode, “hello!” They would keep shouting, there was […]

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Hong Kong Layover Days 287, 288 Hong Kong is a city of height, it is built on a small space and everything goes up. Walking down the main shopping district gave me a feeling of being in the valley of a canyon, the buildings being the canyon walls. The buses even go with the height […]

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Our last night in Nanning, Tim Kneeland led a meeting telling us that Odyssey would go on with only the people who would pay the additional $3000. Tim tried to justify his decision by giving a cost list of some of the flights and the projected increases the airlines had experienced. Curiously the overage was […]

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