Monthly Archives: December 2007

the grudge

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This post is about an 18km walk from Baijing to Pingding. I start walking with a grudge, and I end it with an even bigger grudge. …of course the radiator didn’t work. The coldest night so far. Arctic. I woke up with a grudge and couldn’t get rid of it for the rest of the […]


achromatic – again

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This post is about a 21km walk from Jiuguan to Baijing. It snows for the first time, and I see my first bit of the Great Wall. Everything was white, and it was… SNOW!! I said goodbye to the friendly farmers where I had spent the night: Then I rushed out the door. G307 was […]


choice

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This post is about a 29km walk from Tianchang to Jiuguan. I leave the highway to see the Yujia Stone Village. Then I get lost in the hills. Sick of me going off about all the terrible sins against the environment? Well, things went in a slightly different way today. But first things first. It […]


bird and man, milkshake and blood

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This post is about a 14km walk from Jingxing to Tianchang. I see a lot of polluted water and coal dust. In the end I get a German capri sun. Back on G307, I saw something unexpected: Beautiful. No idea what kind of bird this was, but I thought: majestic wings over the gates of […]


definition of hurt

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This post is about a 23km walk from Luquan to Jingxing. I walk past a prison, a lot of environmental damage, and a funeral procession. I woke up and went down the hallway to brush my teeth: Then I put on my backpack and started walking on that long winding road. I had no idea […]


out like a soldier

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This post is about an 18km walk from Shijiazhuang to Luquan. I am back in the countryside, and I see my first mountain. I walked west today. That’s a good thing, because west is where my home is. There shall be no more walking south for a while. On the way out from the city […]


living large in the dust

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This post is about pollution in Shijiazhuang. I take a leisurely walk around town and wonder where all that dust might come from. I stayed in the city today. In “civilization”, as someone had put it. But first, I opened another door in my advent calendar: 5 doors open, 5 pieces of chocolate eaten, 19 […]


templicity

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This post is about a 24km walk from Zhengding to Shijiazhuang. I visit a few temples and help out a Buddhist monk. For those of you who might have been wondering what my room (my cold room) looked like last night: The glowing disc is the electrical heater I paid 8 yuan for yesterday. It […]


history lessons

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This post is about a 9km walk within Zhengding. I visit the Journey To The West Palace, the Tianning Temple and the Longxing Temple. War! When I woke up this morning I thought I could hear a military conflict going on outside: gunshots, detonations, laughter… Laughter? You might have already guessed it: Someone was throwing […]


easy yokes

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This post is about a 26km walk from Xinle to Zhengding. I hang out with some middle-school students in their work unit. I said good-bye to my friends in Xinle today. Life in the spa was very pleasant, but eventually I had to get going, no matter what. On the road I saw someone who seemed […]


advent

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This post is about how I get my repaired lens back while I’m in Xinle. It’s also the first of December, the beginning of Advent. Where I am from, Christmas is on the evening of December 24th. Today is December 1st. That’s not Christmas. But for me it is, at least a little. I’m still […]