Secret Policeman Say - "It's for your own Protection"! December 2nd 2006 Day 183, 30th November
Runan - Zhengyang - Luoshan - Mangyang
The morning began with a full on battle. It was total war! Fireworks were flying everywhere around the tents. We used our catapults to full effect and the locals who heard the commotion ventured to investigate what the strange foreign types were doing in their storm drain. After we ran out of fireworks, we packed up, made our ex ... read more
Asia » China » Hubei For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
Hi! I'm Andy Ganner, known as the "BIKEPACKER". Meaning I put everything on my bike; tent, cooker, clothes, food, tent, and sleeping bag... and just set off on an adventure.
Been doing it nearly 20 years and have hand-written journals for every trip from my RTW backpacking trip of 1986, up to present.
Over the next years I'll be publishing my "Memorablogs" of these trips. It will take time as there are many slides to scan, I only went digital in 2009.
You can already read the epic England to Singapore trip: 2001 a Bike Odyssey, now. It's all there, word for word from my written jour... full info