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Hong Kong - Jim got a flat tire on the narrow, winding mountainous Stanley - Central road on our way out from Maryknoll to the Z
Date: 12/05/2007
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Hong Kong Island - Victoria Harbor at dusk
Date: 12/02/2007
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Sunset over Central Hong Kong
Date: 12/02/2007
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Date: 12/02/2007
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Hong Kong - Causeway Bay - Hong Kong's premier shopping district
Date: 12/02/2007
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Hong Kong - South China Sea at Stanley
Date: 12/01/2007
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Hong Kong - Maryknoll house in the back ground atop the Stanley Mound.
Date: 12/01/2007
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Since 1997 Hong Kong is a part of China, but the government structures and personal freedoms remain quite different. This is wha
Date: 11/30/2007
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Hong Kong: Narrow and steep
Date: 11/30/2007
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What a terrible sign!
Date: 11/30/2007
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Jim!
Date: 11/30/2007
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Peter at the top of Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
Date: 11/30/2007
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Hiking up to Victoria Peak in Hong Kong
Date: 11/30/2007
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Cold Cereal at Maryknoll. WHOA!!! What a treat from the usual Fueled By Rice diet.
Date: 11/30/2007
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Drew reflecting on the Maryknoll balcony
Date: 11/30/2007
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On the balcony of the Maryknoll house on the south side of Hong Kong island over looking the South China Sea. It was a wonderful
Date: 11/30/2007
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Bro. Sebastian is a cartoonist, and one of the nicest Maryknollers I've met while teaching through their China service project s
Date: 11/29/2007
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Hong Kong - A very dense urban center due to mountains physically restricting urban sprawl.
Date: 11/28/2007
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Jim in Hong Kong - typical side street.
Date: 11/28/2007
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Drew in Hong Kong
Date: 11/28/2007
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Peter in Hong Kong
Date: 11/28/2007
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Peter with Central Hong Kong and the IFC tower (the tallest building in Hong Kong) in the back.
Date: 11/28/2007
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Peter and bike in Central, Hong Kong
Date: 11/28/2007
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Peter's bike in Hong Kong - Central. Biking from the ferry to Maryknoll in Stanley was quite exciting and intense. Add the fact
Date: 11/28/2007
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On the ferry boat from Shenzhen to Hong Kong. The ferry turned out to be the only for sure way to get our bikes over the China m
Date: 11/28/2007
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A container ship in the Shenzhen, China port
Date: 11/28/2007
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Peter on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen highway
Date: 11/27/2007
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Terrible Guodao (national highway) going south from Guangzhou to Shenzhen - a major shipping and factory corridor, with construc
Date: 11/27/2007
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Maryknoll China teachers at Kevin & Kaishan's wedding (Guangzhou)
Date: 11/25/2007
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Maryknoll China teachers at Kevin & Kaishan's wedding (Guangzhou)
Date: 11/25/2007
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Office cage
Date: 11/24/2007
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Guangzhou - late night shipping
Date: 11/24/2007
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Guangzhou - And showing off your money
Date: 11/24/2007
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Guangzhou - Big City Lights. Its all about show.
Date: 11/24/2007
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Guangzhou traffic...more and more people are buying cars, despite terrible congestion and CO2 emissions in the height of Global
Date: 11/22/2007
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Guangzhou - Arrival in metropolis and traffic
Date: 11/22/2007
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Lunch on the street
Date: 11/21/2007
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3,4,5 on a motorbike is not uncommon in China.
Date: 11/21/2007
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Today's town from a bird's eye
Date: 11/21/2007
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A sundowner with Adam and Drew
Date: 11/21/2007
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Sunset on Mainstreet, Guangdong prov. China.
Date: 11/20/2007
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Bananas, my favorite!
Date: 11/20/2007
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Fruit market!
Date: 11/20/2007
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(laughter) Open air shower and toilet...signs of moving into the tropics though it was still cold in the breeze.
Date: 11/20/2007
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Peter by sugarcane fields...its getting warmer as we head south in Guangdong province!
Date: 11/20/2007
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A typical fueled by rice lunch, from left center clockwise: Carrots & pork, Caixin (a Chinese green vegetable), Eggplant (Ho
Date: 11/20/2007
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Date: 11/20/2007
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Drew & his sweet 80s sunglasses
Date: 11/20/2007
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In the mountains with the Bandwagon
Date: 11/20/2007
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"Anquan di yi" - "Safty first." China loves walls, gates, and locks. I think its way over done since China
Date: 11/20/2007
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Drew at breakfast
Date: 11/20/2007
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Date: 11/19/2007
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Adam
Date: 11/19/2007
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Biking along a nice Sheng Dao (Provincial road) south of Da Qiao village, Guangdong Prov.
Date: 11/19/2007
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Da Qiao, Guangdong - Buying carrots from a street vendor. She is using a typical Chinese scale. Though the arm is supposed to be
Date: 11/18/2007
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Sir Andrew
Date: 11/18/2007
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Da Qiao village - Peter in cooler weather
Date: 11/18/2007
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Peter!
Date: 11/18/2007
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A dump truck of school children - AKA Chinese School Bus (Meihua Town, Guangdong Prov. China)
Date: 11/16/2007
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Meihua Town street - A typical red Propaganda banner hanging across the street.
Date: 11/16/2007
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Meihua morning market - Buying chicken, selling vegetables
Date: 11/16/2007
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The taylor, her neighbor who sells finished clothes, and I after lunch.
Date: 11/16/2007
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Meihua Town - A kind taylor fixing my camera bag. She invited me to lunch at her stall.
Date: 11/16/2007
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Meihua Town, Guangdong Prov. - Jim & Nakia in the morning market
Date: 11/16/2007
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Meihua town, Guangdong prov. A warm welcome by students on their way home.
Date: 11/16/2007
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Meihua Town, Guangdong, China. One of the major streets
Date: 11/16/2007
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My partner, Niuniu, with a telephone ad in the background
Date: 11/15/2007
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On our way south to Kevin's & Kaishan's wedding - 460km north of Guangzhou City, China.
Date: 11/14/2007
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Breakfast in China.
Date: 11/14/2007
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Pork at market.
Date: 11/14/2007
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Date: 11/14/2007
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Market street in a small town.
Date: 11/14/2007
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Curious about the foreigner they just passed...
Date: 11/14/2007
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Date: 11/14/2007
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Adam
Date: 11/13/2007
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Raised on coal
Date: 11/13/2007
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Carrying away the coal.
Date: 11/13/2007
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Ground up coal mixed with water is pressed in to forms that people use in stoves to boil water and to cook. Coal is cheaper than
Date: 11/13/2007
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Southern Hunan. Shoveling coal. This area had many wholesale coal sellers as there were many nearby mines.
Date: 11/13/2007
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A very old building still used as a house. The owners did not know how old the house was, and they along with their neighbors di
Date: 11/13/2007
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Jim's a hit with the kids
Date: 11/13/2007
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On the road
Date: 11/13/2007
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Date: 11/12/2007
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Camp fire. We had a discussion about the physical properties of fire: plasma or gas? It turns out its a complictated combinati
Date: 11/12/2007
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Southern Hunan at dusk.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Perparing the field for reed planting.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Planting reeds used for weaving. Southern Hunan.
Date: 11/11/2007
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South enough to where they're planting the fields again with a reed used for weaving. Southern Hunan.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Drew.
Date: 11/11/2007
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The Koreans in motion on their sweet tandem.
Date: 11/11/2007
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On the road in Hunan.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Adam on trailer duty.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Mass transit, countryside style.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Busy traffic...The dreaded Chinese truck that enjoys freaquently blowing super loud air horns and blowing up dirt with exhaust p
Date: 11/11/2007
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Kuang Sub - A Korean tandem bicyclist. 3 year World tour. See our "links" for their website.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Su Ji - A Korean tandem bicyclist. 3 year World tour. See our "links" for their website.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Date: 11/11/2007
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Countryside factory, as usual, with unfiltered coal smoke.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Hunan prov. A small roadside saw mill. One among many.
Date: 11/11/2007
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Peekers
Date: 11/11/2007
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Picking up after school by bike - the standard mode of transit in China's countryside. A big contrast with China's big cities.
Date: 11/10/2007
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Kid bikers in Hunan's countryside
Date: 11/10/2007
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Kuang Sup & Su Ji playing games on break
Date: 11/10/2007
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Fruit break!
Date: 11/10/2007
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Niuniu the snake, who's making the trip with me.
Date: 11/10/2007
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New friends at Changsha's Forestry University
Date: 11/09/2007
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New friends at Changsha's Forestry University
Date: 11/09/2007
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University concert at Changsha, Hunan - Jim & Adam's old school.
Date: 11/09/2007
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Korean fellow travelers - Su Ji and Kuang Sub at the Forestry University, Changsha.
Date: 11/09/2007
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Jamming in Changsha City, Hunan prov at the Forestry University. A Chinese student joined us on "Hotel California," a
Date: 11/09/2007
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The Korean's hood ornaments
Date: 11/07/2007
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Korean fellow travelers - Kuang Sup & Su Ji - in Hunan, Changsha. They are also biking to Europe via SE Asia and Europe
Date: 11/07/2007
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Hunan, Zhuhai city rice field that we camped in.
Date: 11/07/2007
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Bad road day
Date: 11/06/2007
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Watching Adam look up words in his Chinese dictionary
Date: 11/06/2007
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Typical roadside scene
Date: 11/06/2007
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Demolition with Chinese characteristics.
Date: 11/06/2007
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Watch what you're doing
Date: 11/06/2007
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Walking the railroad
Date: 11/05/2007
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One of many factories along this road
Date: 11/05/2007
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2007 Nov 5 - Many trucks waiting to buy scarce diesel fuel during a several month shortage of diesel in China...from Peter's per
Date: 11/05/2007
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A morning market in a small town.
Date: 11/04/2007
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Eating noodles, the staple of Guangdong province.
Date: 11/04/2007
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Market shot
Date: 11/04/2007
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Waking up in a rice pattie
Date: 11/03/2007
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Date: 11/02/2007
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Harvested rice fields
Date: 11/01/2007
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Harvested rice
Date: 11/01/2007
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