 We woke up surrounded by beautiful, muddy countryside. Yesterday’s rain was still in effect today. We had a $2 breakfast at a noodle shop. Then we waited for the bus to take us even further into the countryside. While we were standing in the rain on the side of the road waiting for a bus, [Continue reading Wu’s Wedding]  Finishing and decorating an apartment starts to take a toll on a person. I needed to get on the bike again. This Saturday the weather was nice. Not sunny. Slightly cool. No rain. So I hopped on the bike and just took off down a road. I noticed more and more people along the road. Far more than [Continue reading A Grave Ride]  A conversation I overheard as we were getting ready to go hiking: Thankfully, we made the bus by 8am. This is one of those bus rides where our friends stood in front of the bus and talked over a microphone from the moment the bus pulled out until we [Continue reading 01.01.10] I woke up, looked out the window, and saw blue skies crowning the dawn of a new day. It is a good day to ride. On this day, I found myself riding with my buddies through fields of oranges. Billions of ripe tangerines to be precise. At every place we stopped to rest, I had oranges being [Continue reading Amidst Fields of Oranges] It has been a little stressful the past couple weeks – primarily with the adoption. Today, I decided to go riding to blow off some stress. There is something freeing about riding – especially in China. Every road I pass leads down some unknown valley and beckons me to explore it. Today, I went on a [Continue reading WuDuHe: Riding Off Adoption Stress]  08.08.09 This particular Saturday the bike club was supposed to ride to the Three Gorges Dam, eat lunch, then take a boat back down the river. I took off a little earlier with a couple of the faster riders to go check out some cliff-side carvings that I spotted on a previous ride, which are located halfway [Continue reading From Cliff-carvings to Canyon Swimming] |
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