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We're in Xinin tonight, my friends (it's also spelled Xining, if you look it up on Google).  We've been riding through China following the Yellow River all day.  Xinin is a 2100-year-old cit … read more

Whoa, blessed relief…we are in Linxia (not Ningxia, as I reported our destination yesterday).  The spellings of Chinese things in English are easy to get distorted. We're down from the Tibetan pl … read more

Greetings from the Tibetan Plateau, folks! We’re up here on top of the world, and we’re staying the night in a town called Aba (it’s pronounced “obbah”).   We rode beautiful mountain roads, … read more

Yesterday was a challenging day. It started easily enough with a breakfast in Wenchuan and a great ride through the Chinese mountains headed toward Seda (it’s pronounced “Seh-Dah”) but by late afterno … read more

Ah, the Pandas…what a thing to see! It was brutally hot and humid, but the pandas were cool (literally, as they are kept in an air conditioned enclosure with all the bamboo they can eat).   … read more