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Bicycle Tour Adventure #32: China Page 8
Day 8: Touring China by Bicycle,
Today we Cycle from Zhongshan to Yangshou
(A Resort in the Heart of Artistic Mountains).
I said Good Morning from the roadside; she turned and gave me the biggest smile ever.
Very fancy burial vaults, aka Happy Mounds.
Yangshou at night.
Day 8 Begins
Above Right: A couple of new things: One, there is a new kind of pumpkin pastry that is chewy and heavenly (at the bottom of the image, on the plate). Two, Dennis bought a Nescafe Instant Coffee Box with 20 packets of Instant Coffee and shared it with the gang. About a dozen people took up the offer. The coffee was completely gone by the time that the picture was taken but there is an empty packet on the table. It was a heavenly experience. The items on the left side of the table are a rice pastries, often with different little sweet things on the inside and they are always gone by the end of breakfast.
Above Right: We're bicycle touring! We pass a few people taking their cows to the field. Cows are locked up at night along with all other valuable possessions.
Above Right: View from a creek crossing.
Above Right: Persimmon Tree.
Above Right: One of the mountain tops looks like a rice stalk stack.
Above Right: Pastoral View.
Above Right: Terraced Rice Paddies and other plants.
Above Right: It is difficult to tell but I vaguely recall that this may be Mandarin Oranges (but we are in persimmon country).
Above Right: Saw Mill, Barking a Tree. Good Morning!
Above Right: Mom and young child, in a front-loader, on the go.
Above Right: Rice stalks, waiting for harvest.
Above Right: A co-op, perhaps all related, helping with the harvest.
Above Right: Grandparent and Grandchild going to the Village (ahead).
Above Right: Cotton.
Above Right: A smoker passes by; there actually were only a few black smoke vehicles in total for the entire trip.
Above Right: Old Chinese construction style.
Above Right: Plenty of new house construction.
Above Right: Nice new home, notice the symbolic gourd.
Above Right: New construction.
Above Right: Incense Maker.
Above Right: Rice Stalk Bunches.
Above Right: Persimmon Drying Racks.
Above Right: Terry's Picture of the Persimmon Drying Racks.
Above Right: Terry Struck bicycle touring in China.
About Dogs: There were plenty of dogs in China. Every dog that we saw was 25 pounds or less, no big dogs, no mean dogs. The Chinese people just will not put up with a mean dog, period. And they will not tolerate being chased by a dog. Dogs are trained early not to interfere with people. I don't know how but I never saw a Chinese person make an unkind act to an animal. I did see on several occasions, little kids be disciplined on the spot for some transgression - they get swatted on the behind, and in every case it was a two or three year old. No public disciplining after age three.
This was the one and only time that I heard a dog bark during the entire China Tour. Furthermore, none of the cyclists were ever chased by a dog for the entire tour and that has never happened to any of us before.
Above Right: Valley view.
Above Right: Mary and others crossing a bridge.
Above Right: Washing clothes in the river.
Above Right: Parking the bikes in a side street for lunch.
The gang (L-R): Regina, Jon, Sam, Mark, Sharon, Mary, Reg, Linda, Lynn, Siobhán, Chrissy, Terry, my empty chair (Dennis).
Above Right: Terry and Dennis Struck in the foreground.
Above Right: The Shades of Pink Sisters (L-R: Sharon, Chrissy, Iris, and Inga).
Above Right: Gathering for a history briefing and then a ride through a busy tunnel.
Above Right: A walk through the town (nearly full moon).
Above Right: A liberal restaurant displays a picture of the Last Emperor and Mao.
Above Right: The town is lit up for night life and we find a nice reflecting pond; it is kind of pretty.