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    Re: The Long Goodbye: From Kunming to Urumqi

    Day 13: Xining to Delingha

    The next day started much like the previous one had ended, in traffic:
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    Day 12: Xiahe to Xining

    The next morning I woke up happy to see that the rain had passed. I packed up the bike and set course for Xining. On the way, I would be leaving Tibetan areas behind and...
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    Day 11: Rest Day in Xiahe

    Having finished the plateau portion of the trip, I needed to plan a route to Xinjiang and decided to take the day off in Xiahe. It was nice to sleep in a bit and then...
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    Re: Shanghai to Tibet.....and back again?

    Hey Mark -

    Sounds like a great trip! It looks like most of your questions have been answered - but to hit a couple of the others:

    If you do a quick search on "Tibet" in the forums you'll find...
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    Day 10: Maerkang to Xiahe

    The next morning as I was packing the bike I had a “pay it forward” moment when these two guys asked if they could borrow my pump to inflate a flat tire:
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    Day 9: Luhuo to Maerkang

    I woke up to rain again the next morning:
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    Day 8: Kangding to Luhuo

    I woke up to blue skies the next morning and set course of Luhuo. I would take the G318 west and then cut north on the S215 past Tagong and the S303 past Daofu. Riding...
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    Day 7: Rest and Route Planning in Kangding

    I really enjoyed Kangding. It’s surrounded by mountains and a river runs right through the middle of town:
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    Day 6: Xichang to Kangding

    The next morning the weather had cleared and I set course for Kangding. Before long I was back on a mountain, and stopped for a peach:
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    Day 6: Luguhu to Xichang

    I woke up to another drizzly day, packed the bike, and stopped by the stupa on the way out:
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    Day 5: Rest in Luguhu

    The next morning, I wandered around looking for breakfast and found a place that had a little steamer out front full of breakfast items. I opted for hardboiled eggs and...
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    Re: The Long Goodbye: From Kunming to Urumqi

    ChinaV - "bad roads and good people" - that about sums it up! It's what I love about China too. One minute I'm shaking my fist at a truck who just blasted me with his horn and the next minute I'm...
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    Day 4: ??? to Luguhu

    It didn’t. It rained all night long and waking up in the morning, it was still sprinkling:
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    Day 3: Shaxi to ???

    The next morning I set course for Luguhu. The road out of Shaxi is beautiful, winding through the mountains and over villages:
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    Re: The Long Goodbye: From Kunming to Urumqi

    [I made it into Xiahe today and have been wrestling with flickr again - after accessing it in Yunnan, I haven't been able to reach it again - apparently it's blocked, so I'm switching over to...
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    Re: The Long Goodbye: From Kunming to Urumqi

    Will do! I spent a good chunk of the afternoon wrestling with flickr and imgur trying to get everything to play nice together. I resized the images in the first post and switched to the "Medium...
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    Re: The Long Goodbye: From Kunming to Urumqi

    Made it into Luguhu yesterday and have spent the day resting and licking my wounds -

    Laojiahuo - The GW250 is great. I meant to update your GW250 post - "Is the GW250 the YBR killer?" If my...
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    Day 1: Kunming to Dali

    In general, given how much work it takes to hit the road on the first day of a trip – my philosophy for the first day is: “It doesn’t matter how far you ride, it’s a success...
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    Re: The Long Goodbye: From Kunming to Urumqi

    Day 0

    Shorter on time than I was initially planning, I decided to ship the bike down to Kunming and start the trip from there. The shippers picked up the bike on Wednesday and I flew down a few...
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    Useful Weather Sites

    Pretty much all the weather sites I've found in China use an icon-based approach to reporting the weather - as in, on Tuesday it's going to be a little cloud with two rain drops and on Wednesday it's...
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    The Long Goodbye: From Kunming to Urumqi

    After almost five years in China, I’m preparing to move back to the U.S. But before heading back, I’ve got a month to spend saying goodbyes, and what better way to say goodbye than on the back of a...
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    Re: Tibet Ride

    I recently looked into planning a trip for this summer - and basically, it's doable but really expensive. Not only do you need the proper permits, but you need to hire a guide who will escort you in...
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    Re: Good dealers in Beijing?

    I stopped by this shop last week and was impressed - it doesn't look like much from the outside, but it's a nice, decent size shop. The manager I spoke to was really straightforward on prices,...
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    Re: Just bought new bike in Beijing!

    Thanks for writing this up! It solves a mystery I've been puzzling over for about a week. I found it on Taobao listed as a 200cc QM125-3X(II). But the description simulataneously lists it as a...
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    Want to Join a Ride Through Tibet July 2014?

    Hi everyone -

    I'm starting to think a bit about organizing a ride through Tibet this coming July and have been working with Tibet Travel on some of the logistics and costs. I'm still in the early...
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