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A special note on Chinese Democracy & Fairness.

We produced a stellar video: http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/03/31/recruitment

For a competition that they created: http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/05/29/vote-for-hohhot

In order to develop free marketing for their school (which they still use): http://www.astonrecruiting.com/hohhot-aston.html

The competition developed:

*PICTURES TO COME SOON*

And then we were disqualified: http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/07/05/taking-my-leave

… I’m not bitter.

I’m still disappointed in Aston English Schools.

*From the Archive*

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I present, from the archive and in the raw, the answer to “Why didn’t you just punch John?” …because sometimes you just need to punch something, and you understand the that there is no answer to ”Why didn’t you just punch John?”

Happy Thursday Everybody.

I finally got the route off the gps and online!!

Cycling China
For the full GPS file, us this URL:

http://blog.johnmizell.com/man-uploads/gpslog/2009-08-23-china.kml

More so, each post now has the daily GPS route accompanying it’s text.  Soon I hope to have routes on MapMyRide too.

We’ve arrived in Hong Kong. – there’s more to say, but I fear I’ll fall asleep.

Attempting to recall as much as I can now… standby

- there was…

a bus ride & an honest taxi driver, sunrise, an argument, a breakfast, our bikes, the 1-2 change-up in the middle of the train station, failures, another argument, repairs, lost within 500 m of the border, border crossing and a bad choice, some riding, a new friend, a tour, some reflection with puffer fish, sunset, shower & shave, dinner, sim-card all used up, Guinness & Twitter, Dan’s mental collapse, asleep.

2009-08-20 Shenzhen, China to Tai Po, Hong Kong

On MapMyRide.com

Today’s ride was 50 km out of Chongwu along the coast. It was quiet, sunny, beautiful.. well, better than no coast, and a wonderful ride to ‘end’ with. Into Quanzhou we hopped a bus and went straight to Xiamen. In Xiamen we shipped our bikess, via rail to Shenzhen and called up our couch surfing host, a nice young lady. She gave us just what we needed a shower and a place to put our bags down. Fed, cleaned, and now interneted, we’ll stay here for a few days and then catch a bus into Shenzhen where we’ll pick up our bikes and ride across the border into Hong Kong, arriving earlier than expected, but still generally on time. Three days later we hope to meet two friends who will catch us up to speed on how to act American, as well as how to live well and drink hard. I expect good things. I’m especially looking forward to the reunion with my laptop, as I’m sure Dan’s excited about the 6 G’s of equipment he entrusted to a box and a generic non-insured shipping company. (fingers crossed)

2009-08-16 Chongwuzhen-Quanzhou

On MapMyRide.com