AUGUST 29 – VINH, VIETNAM: On Google Maps—the backbone of our iPhone, print-outs and other makeshift navigational devices—roads are labeled by three distinct colors, all with greatly different connotations for cyclists: white roads, yellow roads and orange roads. The darker the color, the more major the road. While training in the States, I aimed to […]
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AUGUST 28 – HANOI, VIETNAM: Greetings from Hanoi, Vietnam! I am writing this as we head south from the capital of Vietnam toward Vinh, our stopover before turning west over the mountains into Laos. We are all excited to be finally entering rural communities; that said, however, our two days in Hanoi taught us much… In […]
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AUGUST 25, HONG KONG: A whirlwind last several weeks and a brief fourteen-hour flight later, we at last arrived in Hong Kong, an extended layover on the doorstep of our journey through Asia and Africa. During these next several months, the three of us will travel through a rich diversity of cultural, religious, geographic, and […]
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