I rode towards the Kyrgyz border

and stopped near a factory. The guard helped me put up my tent and invited me for breakfast in the morning. Thank you! The police paid me a visit that one night... asking me to get a hotel room in town: "it is safer." As I refused they gave me their phone number just in case... I was happy to be allowed to camp.

8 INCROYABLE months on a bike!

March 21st 2014
I still can’t believe it’s over. It’s actually been a while now. After cycling from Gansu Province to Xinjiang, then on to the <em style="line-height: 1.428571429;">Stans , Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, I am back with Becky in Beijing, China. I have a good job (back to teaching) and surprisingly often enough the sky is amazingly blue over the city. Of course there ... read more

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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

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