Bikepacking China's Jiangxi Mountains

Item #1 on Day 1, Item #2 a week later – nothing in between? Not sounding like the "Super Epic Totally Awesome Week-long Bikepacking ...

In China, Cycling, Feb 08, 2025

If I had a Favorite Place

I could see it extending just above the treetops, looking out across at it from a mountain temple. The stone tower stood in solitude ...

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Bikepacking China's Jiangxi Mountains

Item #1 on Day 1, Item #2 a week later – nothing in between? Not sounding like the "Super Epic Totally Awesome Week-long Bikepacking Trip™" like some of my others. But moderately weir...

In China, Cycling, Feb 08, 2025

Bikepacking across Shanxi Province

Like every year, we have an entire week off work to cycle… or I guess do whatever… This year for China’s national holiday, I took the challenge of cycling Shanxi Province from south t...

In China, Cycling, Oct 01, 2024

World Cycling Tour: Southern Africa

It’s probably not hard to imagine that this was my favorite leg of the world tour. The traffic to nature ratio was excellent.

In World Tour, Cycling, Feb 14, 2023

World Cycling Tour: Eastern Europe

It’s not any scarier that Western Europe, just a little rough around the edges. Still, you’ll be surprised at the marvels laying all the way “over there”. My first tho...

In World Tour, Cycling, Oct 16, 2022

Enshi to Chongqing - Chinese New Years

My last big trip in October went halfway across Hubei Province to the Three Gorges Dam, and just beyond that is EnShi. Its elegant black building complex was a scroll-stopper on a tra...

In China, Cycling, Feb 14, 2022