http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1 Journeys across the globe for adventure and sustainable transport Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:33:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I last wrote in China we've been up to a fair bit. We left our couchsurfing host, William in Kunming with a heavy heart and had a fun time getting our bikes on the bus to the border town of Hekou. The vietnam visa had been super easy to ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/12/06/ha-noi-before-home/ Email from TC - Nov 22, 2009 We are currently sitting in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan. We are couchsurfing in town with a cool french guy and waiting for our vietnam visa to come back. The cruise through the Yunnan province has been pretty cool and a huge change from ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/11/22/blogging-from-kunming-china/ Email from TC - Nov 15, 2009 Hey there, here is an update from Lijiang. We've just arrived in the province of Yunnan and the city of Lijiang. Wow what a difference it is from tibet. There is so much development here. Granted, the development seems pretty forced and the locals ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/11/15/blogging-from-lijiang-china/ Email sent by TC, November 9, 2009 I don't have a long time to write much of a blog entry at the moment but I thought that I'd give a quick update for teh site and you as to where we are. We're in teh town of Bayi City in Eastern ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/11/09/bayi-city-in-eastern-tibet/ Email received this morning - Oc 31,2009 Ahhhh, relaxation in Lhasa after some monumental passes and lots of remote ks ridden. We made the mistake of climbing too fast and as a result we all had some nasty head aches and really struggled with the first 4 to 5 days of ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/10/31/arrived-in-lhasa/ Emails from TC ... also sent Oct 26, 2009 Second blog to go up. Cheers Ahhh mountains. Nic loves them and gets a huge smile everytime she sees one of them and thats lucky because riding up them at amazingly stupid altitudes needs something to make you smile. The border is ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/10/26/tibet-border-to-everest-base-camp/ Email from TC...sent Monday, Oct 26, 2009 Hi Carole, Here is the first blog message to go up on the site. hopefully I have enough time to get another one down about the journey here in the mountains. Thanks very much Tc Blog 1 I'm now in Tibet an our website is ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/10/26/kathmandu-to-tibet-border/ Posting email received from TC on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 Hey Carole, Nic is just sending you a few pics of our trip in tibet so far. Its pretty cool. We have a small problem in that China has blocked both facebook and our website. In that way we can't ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/10/23/starting-the-tibet-journey/ Wow. Its like someone has turned down the volume. Its quieter, cleaner, much less smelly and the most important part is that the people know how to smile and welcome a stranger. We've been a few days in Nepal are really like it. It may have been a shock if ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/10/06/ahhh-nepal/ Well I thought that I'd put a quick post up to say that we are out of india and are currently enjoying the relative calm of kathmandu. The last while in india was typically fun. The package that we were waiting for was a massive problem as most things are ... http://twowheelsarebetterthanfour.com/blog1/2009/10/04/out-of-india/