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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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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