Hong Kong - Jim got a flat tire on the narrow, winding mountainous Stanley - Central road on our way out from Maryknoll to the Z

Hong Kong Island - Victoria Harbor at dusk

Sunset over Central Hong Kong

Hong Kong - Causeway Bay - Hong Kong's premier shopping district

Hong Kong - South China Sea at Stanley

Hong Kong - Maryknoll house in the back ground atop the Stanley Mound.

Since 1997 Hong Kong is a part of China, but the government structures and personal freedoms remain quite different. This is wha

Hong Kong: Narrow and steep

What a terrible sign!

Jim!

Peter at the top of Victoria Peak, Hong Kong

Hiking up to Victoria Peak in Hong Kong

Cold Cereal at Maryknoll. WHOA!!! What a treat from the usual Fueled By Rice diet.

Drew reflecting on the Maryknoll balcony

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

Bro. Sebastian is a cartoonist, and one of the nicest Maryknollers I've met while teaching through their China service project s

Hong Kong - A very dense urban center due to mountains physically restricting urban sprawl.

Jim in Hong Kong - typical side street.

Drew in Hong Kong

Peter in Hong Kong

Peter with Central Hong Kong and the IFC tower (the tallest building in Hong Kong) in the back.

Peter and bike in Central, Hong Kong

Peter's bike in Hong Kong - Central. Biking from the ferry to Maryknoll in Stanley was quite exciting and intense. Add the fact

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

A container ship in the Shenzhen, China port

Peter on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen highway

Terrible Guodao (national highway) going south from Guangzhou to Shenzhen - a major shipping and factory corridor, with construc

Maryknoll China teachers at Kevin & Kaishan's wedding (Guangzhou)

Maryknoll China teachers at Kevin & Kaishan's wedding (Guangzhou)

Office cage

Guangzhou - late night shipping

Guangzhou - And showing off your money

Guangzhou - Big City Lights. Its all about show.

Guangzhou traffic...more and more people are buying cars, despite terrible congestion and CO2 emissions in the height of Global

Guangzhou - Arrival in metropolis and traffic

Lunch on the street

3,4,5 on a motorbike is not uncommon in China.

Today's town from a bird's eye

A sundowner with Adam and Drew

Sunset on Mainstreet, Guangdong prov. China.

Bananas, my favorite!

Fruit market!

(laughter) Open air shower and toilet...signs of moving into the tropics though it was still cold in the breeze.

Peter by sugarcane fields...its getting warmer as we head south in Guangdong province!

A typical fueled by rice lunch, from left center clockwise: Carrots & pork, Caixin (a Chinese green vegetable), Eggplant (Ho

Drew & his sweet 80s sunglasses

In the mountains with the Bandwagon

"Anquan di yi" - "Safty first." China loves walls, gates, and locks. I think its way over done since China

Drew at breakfast

Adam

Biking along a nice Sheng Dao (Provincial road) south of Da Qiao village, Guangdong Prov.

Da Qiao, Guangdong - Buying carrots from a street vendor. She is using a typical Chinese scale. Though the arm is supposed to be

Sir Andrew

Da Qiao village - Peter in cooler weather

Peter!

A dump truck of school children - AKA Chinese School Bus (Meihua Town, Guangdong Prov. China)

Meihua Town street - A typical red Propaganda banner hanging across the street.

Meihua morning market - Buying chicken, selling vegetables

The taylor, her neighbor who sells finished clothes, and I after lunch.

Meihua Town - A kind taylor fixing my camera bag. She invited me to lunch at her stall.

Meihua Town, Guangdong Prov. - Jim & Nakia in the morning market

Meihua town, Guangdong prov. A warm welcome by students on their way home.

Meihua Town, Guangdong, China. One of the major streets

My partner, Niuniu, with a telephone ad in the background

On our way south to Kevin's & Kaishan's wedding - 460km north of Guangzhou City, China.

Breakfast in China.

Pork at market.

Market street in a small town.

Curious about the foreigner they just passed...

Adam

Raised on coal

Carrying away the coal.

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

Southern Hunan. Shoveling coal. This area had many wholesale coal sellers as there were many nearby mines.

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

Jim's a hit with the kids

On the road

Camp fire. We had a discussion about the physical properties of fire: plasma or gas? It turns out its a complictated combinati

Southern Hunan at dusk.

Perparing the field for reed planting.

Planting reeds used for weaving. Southern Hunan.

South enough to where they're planting the fields again with a reed used for weaving. Southern Hunan.

Drew.

The Koreans in motion on their sweet tandem.

On the road in Hunan.

Adam on trailer duty.

Mass transit, countryside style.

Busy traffic...The dreaded Chinese truck that enjoys freaquently blowing super loud air horns and blowing up dirt with exhaust p

Kuang Sub - A Korean tandem bicyclist. 3 year World tour. See our "links" for their website.

Su Ji - A Korean tandem bicyclist. 3 year World tour. See our "links" for their website.

Countryside factory, as usual, with unfiltered coal smoke.

Hunan prov. A small roadside saw mill. One among many.

Peekers

Picking up after school by bike - the standard mode of transit in China's countryside. A big contrast with China's big cities.

Kid bikers in Hunan's countryside

Kuang Sup & Su Ji playing games on break

Fruit break!

Niuniu the snake, who's making the trip with me.

New friends at Changsha's Forestry University

New friends at Changsha's Forestry University

University concert at Changsha, Hunan - Jim & Adam's old school.

Korean fellow travelers - Su Ji and Kuang Sub at the Forestry University, Changsha.

Jamming in Changsha City, Hunan prov at the Forestry University. A Chinese student joined us on "Hotel California," a

The Korean's hood ornaments

Korean fellow travelers - Kuang Sup & Su Ji - in Hunan, Changsha. They are also biking to Europe via SE Asia and Europe

Hunan, Zhuhai city rice field that we camped in.

Bad road day

Watching Adam look up words in his Chinese dictionary

Typical roadside scene

Demolition with Chinese characteristics.

Watch what you're doing

Walking the railroad

One of many factories along this road

2007 Nov 5 - Many trucks waiting to buy scarce diesel fuel during a several month shortage of diesel in China...from Peter's per

A morning market in a small town.

Eating noodles, the staple of Guangdong province.

Market shot

Waking up in a rice pattie

Harvested rice fields

Harvested rice