A limited blog today…

Drove five hours back to Kunming, which is a major city of a couple million. Not a beautiful city on first impression. Raining…

Of note were the very realistic life size dummy of a cop standing beside the highway, encouraging the speed limit. Bizarre…

We got into town, checked into hotel, then quickly out to see the flower and bird markets nearby. Not spectacular, but the many species of birds for sale was interesting. And when was the last time you saw squirrels in cages for sale? Still raining…

The final dinner was nice; but I think some folks were happy to be done. Two weeks of Chinese food (oily veggies), language (loud at all hours), smells (stenches), traffic (horns constantly), spitting (with deep hacking up a lung, and toilets (oh the humanity) is significant!

We all exchanged emails, and they all were definitely people I’d be happy to cycle adventure with again. All in all, a great group.

My china adventure continues a couple more days with a smaller group. Still raining…