First Warm Spring Day
Trip Start
Aug 03, 2010
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Trip End
Ongoing
Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
Sunday, April 8, 2012
2. Walk the route to work to pick up our bikes that we left there on Friday
3. Receive cat-calls from city police officers while walking over the bridge (not sure who they thought beautiful, him or me)
4. Ride to the new Subway to buy sandwiches (yay!) and then on to Haibin Park
5. Search for 20 minutes for a clear area in the park to eat our sandwiches without getting dive-bombed by the hundreds of kites
6. Get hit in the head with a kite
7. Buy a sweet treat from a vendor who wants to charge us 100 yuan and won't give us back our money which results in a yelling match with the vendor
8. Settle on taking half the treat and paying 35 yuan (still about $6 and waaay to much for any street food in China)
9. Navigate the hoards of sightseers at the famous Fisher Girl Statue
10. Submit to requests to pose for photos with interested Chinese bikers
11. Stop at a local street market to buy a new fan
12. Crash my bike on the ride home while trying to navigate a 1 inch curb and get helped up by a Chinese man (hurt, no, embarrased, yes)
13. Get into a traffic jam on the bridge, in the bike line, because a Chinese man has driven his car up into it and came to a standstill when confronted by dozens of oncoming bikers and motorcyclists and is now trying to reverse half way back down
14. Made it back home to cook delicous mini-burgers on our mini-grill with extremely expensive imported charcoal
15. My new anniversary gift, a jade bracelet, falls off my wrist into the floor and cracks into 3 pieces (likely cracked during my biking accident earlier in the day)
Comments
Nicely done, I ALMOST feel as if I am there with you
Nice Pix. Looked like a pretty spring day. Too bad a bunch of people had to interfere....
You've done it again! Great pictures that brought back great memories.
I'm still enjoying the tour, i believe I know more today then ever of that area of the world. I appreciate it !