Rambling Different Trails: It Was A Good Week, It Was A Bad Week.
First, the good part. Ding invited me to ride out to Xiaoyaozhen for spicy soup, a 100 km loop in a direction I hadn’t yet explored. His texts are understandable …
Rambling Different Trails: My Favorite Rides around Zhoukou.
It’s hard to believe it but I’m now familiar with many or most of the major routes in and around Zhoukou. I remember when I first arrived how confusing it …
Rambling Different Trails: Traffic Rules Come To Zhoukou
Well, since last week Zhoukou’s finest have been cracking down on traffic scofflaws. Owning the road doesn’t mean you’re not responsible for what you do on it. There have been …
Rambling Different Trails: Hey, You DO Own The Road.
I was wondering at the impression I have that the operators of the electric three-wheel cargo motos, scooters and bicyclists act like they own the road here, and don’t wear …
Rambling Different Trails: Riding To Lao Tze's Hometown.
As it turns out riding from Zhoukou to Luyi , philosopher Lao Tze’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi hometown here in Henan province is like riding to Omaha from Lincoln, about 100 kilometers. Last …
Rambling Different Trails: Where Does That Road Go?
First of all, congratulations Lincoln and Nebraska on coming in first in the National Bike Challenge! It’s been exciting to watch it unfold from far away, and I wish I …
Rambling Different Trails: Where Two Wheels Rule.
It’s been almost a month now that Steve and I have been in China, teaching English at Zhoukou Normal University. In that time I’ve bought a bicycle and have been …
Trail Ramblings: A Nice Ride In The Country, Or Slaying The Dragon?
This will be my last post for a while, as I’ll be in China for the next ten months. I hope to be bicyclincoln’s foreign correspondent and get the occasional …
Trail Ramblings: I Found Chief Standing Bear’s Almost Finished Trail Head.
Last month I wrote about riding the Homestead Trail to Beatrice to check out the trail head of the Chief Standing Bear Trail to Marysville, KS. At the border of …
Trail Ramblings: What IS That Plant?
You ride past them, but do you know what they are? Rails to Trails corridors and waterways are great places to see both native plants and opportunistic interlopers. Some are …