We often blog about past experiences, personal insight, and\u00a0meeting people.\u00a0 For those of you who are wondering about more specific details of the trip this blog is meant as an update of our current status and foreseeable plans in the future.<\/p>\n
Right now we are in northern Guangdong province and are working our way south towards Guangzhou.\u00a0 This weekend we will be attending Kevin Clancy’s wedding reception in Guangzhou, Kevin is a fellow St. John’s alumni and currently works in Hong Kong.\u00a0 From there we will be heading to Hong Kong for approximately one week, we will take care of a number of things such as\u00a0obtaining visas, purchasing some much needed supplies, and resting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
We are currently holding to our\u00a0plan of biking\u00a0around 75 km a day with a rest day every 5 days\u00a0or so.\u00a0 Lately we have been going through some pretty mountainous terrain and have been getting both large up hills and down hills.\u00a0\u00a0There are a lot of forested areas with a good mix of both deciduous and coniferous trees.\u00a0 We began to come out of the mountains today and are quickly finding it more sub-tropical.\u00a0 Bannana\u00a0trees and sugar cane fields are becoming much more abundant.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
From Hong Kong we\u00a0plan on heading west towards\u00a0Vietnam.\u00a0\u00a0A number of our Chinese Visas will expire soon after the new year so we\u00a0will have to make it to the Vietnam border by then.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Our\u00a0plan is then to continue west to Laos, south\u00a0to Cambodia, then west to Thailand rounding out our SE Asia tour.\u00a0 After researching many different sources, talking with officials,\u00a0fellow bikers, and posting questions on online forums we have\u00a0come to the conclusion that it is not possible to cross any borders into Myanmar.\u00a0\u00a0We\u00a0will however continue to monitor the situation and highlight issues that we think are important once we are in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We aren’t quite sure what Thanksgiving will be like for us, most likely biking towards Guangzhou to get there in time for the wedding.\u00a0 We are thinking of our families and loved ones however, along with the food we are missing out on.\u00a0 Turkeys, or huo ji \u706b\u9e21 are relatively uncommon in China, maybe a chicken or a\u00a0duck will have to suffice.\u00a0 We\u00a0are thinking maybe\u00a0we will\u00a0celebrate it in Hong Kong when we have access to an oven.<\/p>\n
We have been\u00a0mixing in more camping lately\u00a0instead of just staying in LuGuans.\u00a0 We have found the reception in China very warm to camping and people allow\u00a0us to camp pretty much anywhere we ask.\u00a0 We attempt to find secluded places, usually away from towns and busy\u00a0roads.\u00a0\u00a0Sometimes locals come to chat and see what is going on, but\u00a0no one seems to have the same attachment to personal property in China as\u00a0people do in America.\u00a0 In a country where most things are either shared or communal\u00a0\u00a0it is not surprising and really comforting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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