Madly excited by the news that my English mates (and Kunming tennis buddies) Laura and Ben have decided to buy some bikes and ride to Cambodia ("oh just going home for christmas"), I leapt out of bed this morning with the camera readied and raced down to the Daguan bike shops to see them off. The departure had to be marked with at least a little fuss, so I took it upon myself to be press corp and send off commitee. While I've been using the "bite-sized pieces" approach to China and Chinese language study, Laura and Ben have hungrily devoured the language, the country and the endless challenges in monster-sized chunks. I bow deeply in admiration to them for their courage; a few days ago they landed back in Kunming and in that time they have prepared from scratch their first big cycling road trip and have given themselves two months to cycle from Kunming in China down through Laos to Cambodia. So while they attended to final brake cable and pannier tweaking as well as repair kit checks we concocted a cute and vaguely romantic blog note about memorable journeys, leaping-into-voids (and flying of course). A gorgeous sunny Spring City morning - the perfect day for a bit of void leaping. Now sadly I have to say goodbye to them after only a very brief reunion. Waving them off, and choked with not a small dose of adventure-envy, I snapped madly as they disappeared into the early morning diesel fumes. [News from the road 24 hours later: all well and happy] [Mon Oct 29: More good news from the road: a safe arrival in Xinjie after a memorable but huge 7 hour all uphill climb to the capital of the magical Yuanyang rice terraces region. Tired, but again very happy.]
Yes I am back in China, but while I prepare the first installments for autumn, it's a good moment to have a graze through my just recently uploaded summer photo collection which cover my wanderings in Thailand, Bali, Lombok (the Gili Islands), and Australia.
Welcome back!
With a return to China comes a return to Jamtin and a return to every day feeling like an adventure. So I continue to share my photos, that they may go some way towards sharing some of the fun. In any case, I love creating my own little trail of stories and images - that anyone else should enjoy it is a bonus. |
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