We’ve cycled over 10,000km, Beijing-(almost)Delhi
We’re actually around 10,500km, but as Drew said to me this morning while we were pedaling along our 2-lane secondary road in an effort to avoid even crazier Indian National HIGHWAY traffic into Delhi, “10,500km just doesn’t sound as impressive as 10,000.” Humans do seem to like nice round numbers, all those zeros and just one “1.” “10,000.” Ah, Nice. If we said the exact distance we’ve cycled, 10,527.8km (which of course we don’t actually know due to large margins of error and disagreements between our different bicycle odometers), all those other non-binary numbers make it rough around the edges and difficult to swallow, having even less meaning, and certainly creating more confusion.
So 10,000km it is.
8 months.
Beijing-Shanghai-Hongkong-Hanoi-Phnom Phen-Bangkok-Calcutta-Kathmandu-Delhi (almost…give us 3.5 more days)
Thank you so much for all your support and prayers. They have definately paid off. Please keep ‘em coming!
May 20th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Whoa-or as they said when I was a young warthog–far out! 10,000KM is the distance to the outer boundary of the exosphere!
It is also the distance from equator to the North Pole and 4/5s the diameter of our beloved planet.
Buck is wondering if any dogs have gone that far on a bicycle . . . he asks the strangest questions these days.
I’ve been tracing your progress with Jim Mead and John Vonder bruegge here at the office and they are very impressed.
I’ve referred quite a few people to your website and someone was wondering about contributing to the church in the refugee camp that Peter wrote about. How would they go about helping them out?
Love, Blessings and Prayers for all!
Paparodski
May 20th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Thank you for all your blogs and updates, and shared philosophies. As you travel through India again, please stop at an ashran and participate in their daily prayers. Enjoy and be safe….. hopefully will see you all soon. N
May 20th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
No, thank you all for being absolutely incredibly amazing examples to us all.
you guys are my inspiration and my motivation
The photos and the blogs are wonderful works of intellect and art. a wonderful escape from corporate america.
Keep it U-P!!!!!
Love and Peace and good times on the bikes
Autumn
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 am
I love you guys!!!
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