Category: hiking

Nanning China in September

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UPDATE: arrived Nanning – 28 hours in transit:

4am Canada …
car to Nanaimo
ferry to Vancouver
bus & train to YVR airport
flight to Guangzhou
flight to Nanning
courtesy car to official hotel
taxi to my hostel
… midnight China time

I’m staying at the Green Forest hostel. Facebook and twitter are blocked but my websites are working.

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I fly today out of Vancouver.  Arrive Nanning Sept 25th for the World Gymnastics Championships.

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Nanning is known as the “Green City” because of its abundance of lush tropical foliage. …

Nanning has a warm, monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate …

Nanning is close to scenic Guilin, with its world famous hillscape, northern and western Guangxi and its minority villages …

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I’ll exit by train to Vietnam en route to Nepal. Hiking in both those nations.

Here’s my post just prior to my 1st trip to China Aug. 1998 – have you eaten?

farewell Port Townsend

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I had another wonderful visit hosted by Doug and Diana Davis.

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I was there finishing final videotaping of Gymnastics Games. They should be released SOON. 🙂

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Port Townsend is for outdoor adventure. I spent a lot of time on Doug’s excellent road bike.

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Doug just invested in a company producing Elf bicycles in the USA.

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I had one issue. An ingrown nail blew up. For some days I considered fleeing to the socialized Health Care of Canada.

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It quickly healed after we released the pus. A-OK now.

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Farewell PT. I should be back after New Years. 🙂

Expedition Idaho Adventure Race

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7-days of continuous physical and mental challenge, almost no sleep, bad food, questionable water. Who invented this sport? 🙂

To stagger the start of Expedition Idaho, Race Director Dave Adlard, set a unique prologue.

Teams had to climb the toughest waterslide, starting over if anyone slipped.

If successful, they then took a victory lap … running the Lazy River. Backwards. 🙂

This is even tougher than it looks.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Gymnastics sport scientist Jeni McNeal is running this race.

Good luck.