Project VELAIA

4 Responses to “Nahe Lanzhou.”

1. 1 Olly
   November 10, 2007 at 2:13 pm

   Well done Daniel,

   Not far to go now, keep it up.

   If you have any trouble near Yinchuan, there is one of the original Chinese team members living there. He gave up on the ride to open a bike store. His shop is located very close to the square in the centre, but I can’t remember the name. The shop front is red colour. It is NOT the Giant shop. His hame is Ding Bing Ning. They have a guest book in there, you’ll find our names!

   After that there are no more big cities all the way to Beijing if you are careful. We didn’t bother going in to Zhangzhiakou, or Jining. The roads bypass them. The volume of coal trucks will increase after Jining, though it is never as bad as route 109. The centre of the coal area is around Datong (The road from Datong joins 110 near Jining)

   Don’t trust the map. Virually all of ours were a little wrong with respect to the exact position of the motorway, in relation to the “old” 110. Keep a look out for nice sections of 110 too, it can be carfree but new seal in places.

   Good luck

   Olly

2. 2 Rudi Holzmann
   November 10, 2007 at 4:28 pm

   Hallo Daniel,
   Deine Bericht sind sehr interessant. Ich freue mich jedesmal, wenn Due einen neuen Bericht eingestellt hast. Besonders freut es mich, dass es Dir gut geht. Pass auf Dich auf. Weiterhin viel Spaß.

3. 3 Peter
   November 10, 2007 at 5:10 pm

   Well, nice to hear you are doing so well. You are really fast! Don’t forget to also look around and don’t just let everything pass you by. You will probably never go through same places again.

   See you next year on Spezi
   Best regards from Slovenia

4. 4 Daniel N. Lang
   November 14, 2007 at 12:45 pm

   @Onkel Rudi: Gerade laeuft es ziemlich hart. Hier in der Inneren Mongolei ist es extrem kalt und zusammen mit dem heftigen Gegenwind zehrt das sehr an meinen Kraeften Ich hoffe jedoch, dass ich es in dem mir vorgenommenen Zeitrahmen nach Beijing schaffe und keine Zehen dabei verliere @Peter: The landscape has changed a lot since I left the high plateaus! And the visibility has gone down extremely - 4 to 5km at the best, often less than 1km due to fog, smog or dust. Inner Mongolia is not the most interesting place (desert mostly) but I get pretty good entertainment from the police who tries many things to get me off the expressway Don’t think I’ll be at _next_ years SPEZI, but a year later for sure *g*