going out for chinese food - - the hard way
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2001 12:56 am
In May-August of 2000, I was the only KLR rider in a group of 14 bikes that
rode around the world, led by Helge Pedersen. We were in about a dozen
countries, and spent a month in China.
Today I received word that one of the original organizers of that trip plans
to do a month-long, China-only bike trip in the summer of 2002. I plan to
be on it, and this time it'd be nice to have some other KLR's along.
It won't be cheap - - probably $8-$9,000, including round-trip airfare,
domestic airfare within China to the far western border near Pakistan,
shipping of the motorcycles to China and back to the U.S., all hotels, most
meals, all necessary documentation,
including Chinese driver's licenses, and license plates, English-speaking
Chinese guides, a chase vehicle for the entire time, etc. Pretty much
everything will be covered except fuel for the bikes, and a few meals.
The plan is to fly to the far-western part of China and ride the country
from west-to-east, back towards Beijing, covering probably 4,000 miles in 30
days. Last time we rode mostly south-to-north, popping out of China at its
northern border with Russia/Mongolia. Last time, even though we rode over
3,000 miles in China, we didn't see a lot of geographical diversity,
because we were in the highly-populated coastal lowlands almost the entire
time. From a geographical diversity standpoint, this trip in 2002 should be
far more interesting.
The trip will be 30 days, almost certainly in the June-July-August
timeframe, but dates have not been set.
If anyone's interested, let me know, either on list, or off. Thanks.