Today’s post is a little pedantic, but the background is necessary so that you can understand the posts following this one. Xinjiang, the region we had just entered, is a vast territory, almost as large as Alaska. Though China has had an on-again, off-again presence for the past two millennia, the name, Xinjiang, is Chinese …
When we pitched this project, we wanted to use hitchhiking as a way to meet real people in China. We have met real people in China, as our posts on Drink Horse One Army demonstrate. However, somedays, we have had to give up on hitchhiking in order to get where we are going. Long …
Make sure to read this post to understand what happens in the following one. The day after our nighttime encounter with the police, we did little. I ran over to the bus station and bought tickets to get us out of town. The town had little to offer, other than the people, and we had …
Make sure you read the previous post about our ride in a Chinese paddy wagon. Otherwise, you may have trouble following this post. After we took a ride in the Chinese paddy wagon, the rest of the night’s events were tedious. The short cop with the uniform took us to the hotel that I had …
This post is both exciting and disturbing, but, to understand it, you will need some background. To understand the authority under which the police apprehended us, read this post on hotels and foreigners. To understand the day before, make sure to have read this post about how we got into this particular hotel. We were …
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Check out this article on us in the Red and Black: UGA grads hitchhike China’s Silk Road Thanks again for the interview from Daniel Funke, a distant relative of Tobias Funke. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/i-just-blue-myself
I have not mentioned this so far in the blog, but we are getting publicity from a lot of different groups. We even have a magazine in China publishing our stories. Unfortunately, they do not appear to be putting it in the online edition, but we are getting into print. Thanks again to Tom Lee …
We were in the tiny town of Subei, which I discussed in the previous post. During our explorations of Subei, we were walking along a country road lined just past the edge of town when a man pulled beside us on a little motorscooter. He just barely kept pace with us, wobblingly maintaining his balance …
Make sure to check out this earlier post explaining why many hotels do not allow foriegners to stay. As I mentioned before, we had been trying to get into the wilds of the Qinlian Mountains that ran along the southern end of the Gansu Corridor, marking the northern-most extent of the Tibetan world. From Google …
We walked along the highway for no longer than three minutes. I was about to take a traditional Chinese roadside bathroom break, when Galen warned against it. We were fairly close to a series of small military camps, and Galen, in the distance, could hear a large diesel engine humming towards us. I did not …