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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2016

Posted December 24, 2016 by Cara Crawford

It’s that time of year again, the time where we check in with all of our friends, family, and readers everywhere to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. As another year comes to a close we like to take some time to reflect on all of the amazing triumphs and challenges this year...

How to Find Jiangmen’s Hidden Waterfall

Posted December 20, 2016 by Cara Crawford

This place is easily the most amazing hidden gem we’ve found near our home in Zhuhai, China. The water in the swimming hole is the most amazing shade of turquoise blue and absolutely crystal clear. This incredible waterfall flows from a spring on top of the mountain, splashing down into a large...

Warmshowers Guest: Regula and Johannes Malin

Posted December 17, 2016 by Justin

We had the pleasure of hosting another touring couple this past weekend from the warmshowers website. Warmshowers is a great community, very similar to couchsurfing, but for touring cyclists. Cara and I always enjoy hosting new people because it gives us a chance to meet wonderful people fr...

The Best Places to See Pandas in China

Posted December 11, 2016 by Cara Crawford

Pandas are synonymous with China. It’s one of the few facts everyone knows about this crazy country: it has pandas! The panda is exotic, been featured in many an animated movie, the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund and it’s completely unique to China. This is the one place in t...

Lijiang to Chengdu by Tandem Bicycle Part 4: Riding in the Grasslands

Posted November 18, 2016 by Cara Crawford

To say we woke up stiff and sore would be an understatement. We quickly realized that riding, and especially climbing, on a bike at above 4000 meters of elevation takes a lot out of us. Our bodies simply don’t recover very well when there’s no oxygen. We pretty much anticipated ...

Lijiang to Chengdu on a Tandem Bicycle Part 3: Climbing Onto the Plateau

Posted November 09, 2016 by Cara Crawford

After the terrible road conditions we traversed yesterday, we were anxiously awaiting the intersection of highway G318, China’s route 66, which would guarantee us a good road for the rest of the trip. I have literally never looked forward to seeing a specific road so much in my life (seems ...

Warmshowers Guest: Nick Kennedy

Posted November 08, 2016 by Justin

As some of you may know, we host touring cyclists from warmshowers. This is a wonderful website where touring cyclists can sign up and find people along there route to stay with. For those of us that are hosts, it allows us to meet new people that almost certainly have the same interests as ...

Traveling Abroad Has Changed My Life, and It Can Change Yours Too

Posted November 07, 2016 by Cara Crawford

My friends and family used to tell me all the time that I lived under a rock. It was a good rock. Safe, comfortable, and filled with all the things I loved. In many ways, it was the perfect place, and I thrived there for years, until one day, the rock wasn’t enough anymore. I had grown, and m...

Lijiang to Chengdu on a Tandem Bicycle Part 2: Along the Tibetan Boarder

Posted November 04, 2016 by Cara Crawford

More gorgeous scenery awaited us as we rode out of old town Shangri-La. Today we were descending down the mountain that so painfully took us five hours to climb just two days before. Eventually we were to make it over 4600 m of elevation, 1300 m higher than Shangri-La, but as if 1300 ...

Shangri-La, China: More Than Just a Name?

Posted October 26, 2016 by Cara Crawford

The name Shangri-La has become ubiquitous with paradise. It calls to mind visions of picturesque landscapes untouched by human hands, a last vestige of truly pristine nature, where people live in harmony with the world around them. It’s a place cloaked in mystery, part fantasy, part reality, wher...

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2016

How to Find Jiangmen’s Hidden Waterfall

Warmshowers Guest: Regula and Johannes Malin

The Best Places to See Pandas in China

Lijiang to Chengdu by Tandem Bicycle Part 4: Riding in the Grasslands

Lijiang to Chengdu on a Tandem Bicycle Part 3: Climbing Onto the Plateau

Warmshowers Guest: Nick Kennedy

Traveling Abroad Has Changed My Life, and It Can Change Yours Too

Lijiang to Chengdu on a Tandem Bicycle Part 2: Along the Tibetan Boarder

Shangri-La, China: More Than Just a Name?

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