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Travels with Tour d'Afrique

Done.

November 22, 2007

Taiwan
I don’t really know what to feel now. It has been a few days now since the BIG finish in Beijing, and I am already in Taiwan starting a week away with some of my closest friends from high school. Nice way to end the trip I think.
I think mostly what I feel right now is fatique and relief.

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In Lanzhou, and the Countdown is on…

October 29, 2007

Lanzhou, China
So today I got up at 7am, and was essentially moving at a jogging pace the rest of the day it felt like – visa extensions, emails to send, staff to meet, logistical issues to resolve for the days to come, phone calls, phone calls, phone calls, and some 20 or 30 SMS conversations, lunch, taxi rides across downtown, maps, route planning, paying for hotels, arguing over hotel rates, and hotel rules, to the [...]

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Along the Hexi Corridor and Camping in a Cemetery

October 26, 2007

Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China
We are now traveling in between the Qilian Mountain range to the right and then more mountains and desert to our left – known as the Hexi Corridor. The mountains are very impressive when seen from the flat desert roads were traveling along.
The roads are getting increasingly crazy – local traffic on scooters, bikes, dump trucks, three-wheel cars, horse and donkey and camel carts cut you off, and keep you on edge [...]

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Kyrgyzstan!!!

October 2, 2007

For a country I couldnt’ have picked out on a map six months ago, it is now a place I will never forget.
The cycling has been challenging (crossing 3600 m by bike in a snow storm!), the scenery is spectactular (41% of KG is above 3000 m), our local support has been great, the people are great and its generally an easy place to travel around – but the best part is that I got [...]

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1 Lost Rider, 3 Borders in 3 Days, and Country Number 7

September 20, 2007

Osh, Kyrgyzstan
So yesterday we crossed into Kyrgyzstan – country number 7 on our 8 country expedition. Yesterday was the third border crossing in as many days as the border lines are drawn like a child would scribble on a page in this area. It was:
1. bush camp, Uzbekistan to Khojand, Tajikistan
2. Khojand, Tajikistan to Kokand, Uzbekistan
3. Kokand, Uzbekistan to Osh, Kyrgyzstan
It was a very busy three days, and yesterday was complicated when me and the [...]

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