Hop on a motorcycle and ride across China. Ride into the West. Out of urban industrialization and into the borderlands. Over packed dirt and concrete to a land still breathing with its own lungs. Bring your friends. If you think you’re dreaming, pay more attention.
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Sunday, July 15, 2007

Day 4: (Unnamed City) to Tianshan, Inner Mongolia

Distance: 190 km (118 mi.)
Expenses: gas 45rmb, hotel 47rmb
Events:
  • Found that our Pinyin (a system for transliterating Chinese) map was wrong and bought a new, laminated map of Inner Mongolia.
  • Followed three teenage girls to an Internet bar.
  • Took a late afternoon hike up Tianshan, the mountain for which the town was named.
  • Met and ate dinner with an English student recently graduated from a university in Hohhot (Huhehaote). She told us that Tianshan was famous for having the oldest tree in the world nearby, but the tree had been moved somewhere else.

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