Quote Originally Posted by Pat View Post
I made it into Xining yesterday and took the day off today. The forecast continues to say rain, rain, rain. I spent most of the afternoon searching forecasts and looking for a path around it, but it looks like rain all across Qinghai and Sichuan. I still have roughly 19 days to make it to Kunming, but I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and head towards Yushu tomorrow (I was planning to loop Qinghai Lake, but the loop is 460 km - and it's forecast to rain over there, so I think I'm going to use the one clear day to start moving south...
I feel for you, the past fortnight has seen some quite heavy rains and some light typhoons, though it is typhoon season here again. In amongst all the rain though have been some fine sunny days, which is great. Unfortunately though there past several days we've been experiencing really high humidity - which is uncomfortable to say the least. Makes it hard for one like me who likes to wear a fair amount of protective gear (jacket, boots, gloves, helmet and air filtration mask). Guess wearing all this gear in the humidity is one way to lose weight. hahaha!

Oh, and I'm with the other posters... more girls please ;)