We are now in\u00a0Shu Yang City, Jiangsu Province.\u00a0\u00a0We crossed the provincial border yesturday (Oct 4 2007) between Shangdong and Jiangsu.\u00a0 Counting Beijing municipality, we’ve now biked in 4\u00a0provinces, with\u00a0the next one being Shanghai municipality\u00a0to the far south of Jiangsu.\u00a0 We hope to arrive in Shanghai in 7-10 days, where we’ll be visiting a friend of Nakia’s for a few days.\u00a0 Our ultimate China destinations\u00a0are Guangzhou City for a friend’s wedding reception at the end of November, and then a short break in Hong Kong before pushing on to Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n
We’re not the only one’s biking this route.\u00a0 Several days ago we ran into a man in his early 30s under the shelter of a toll booth who\u00a0works for one of the Olympic Committees\u00a0and is also biking from Beijing to Shanghai with one other person.\u00a0 They’re biking atleast 100km a day and at a faster pace than our 20km\/hr to make the 1200km journey.\u00a0 Perhaps he’s in better shape than us, but his lack of luggage (beyond a small plastic bag on his back rack) no doubt improves his mileage…or kilometerage.\u00a0 He knew of a group of Chinese students biking also, but so far we have not bumped into other foreign bikers.<\/p>\n
Another\u00a0first yesturday\u00a0was biking our day’s worth of 70-80km\u00a0before<\/em> lunch (1pm).\u00a0 After previously arriving\u00a0in towns between 4 and 6pm, we’ve decided\u00a0that an earlier start with an earlier finish\u00a0is preferrable,\u00a0so as to allow afternoon free time to do such activities as music, writing, wandering and chatting with locals, photography and what not – the important stuff –\u00a0though I cannot completely discount the importance of biking\u00a0during a bike trip…\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are now in\u00a0Shu Yang City, Jiangsu Province.\u00a0\u00a0We crossed the provincial border yesturday (Oct 4 2007) between Shangdong and Jiangsu.\u00a0 Counting Beijing municipality, we’ve now biked in 4\u00a0provinces, with\u00a0the next one being Shanghai municipality\u00a0to the far south of Jiangsu.\u00a0 We hope to arrive in Shanghai in 7-10 days, where we’ll be visiting a friend of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-here-are-posts-related-to-the-whole-group","category-petes-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}