End: Luotuojuanzi, Xinjiang, China
Distance: 142 km
Time: 7'54"
Avg: 17.9 k/h
Max: 41 k/h
Total: 11,894 km
Total riding days: 139
Riding hours: 0645 - 1640
A cold, cold morning in the desert.
The roadside is littered with shoes.
The invisible unidexter, naked but for a black leather winkle-picker, hitch-hiking on the desert highway to Urumqi.
A pretty funky hotel for the night, with a pretty funky world-cup-ready water-tower.
For fellow-travellers: there is nothing at all on the road until you reach the oasis at Luotuojuanzi, after about 135 km, except a tin-hut mining operation at around 35 km and a solitary house around 95 km. The map shows other places, the roadsigns say things like "Yandun 73 km", and after 73 km there is a sign that says "Yandun". But that is it, really it. No houses, no people, no camels, not a potato in sight. Just a sign saying "Yandun", and desert.
Not that I know anything about anything but that place with the big football looks. How I'd imaging a brothel to look from the outside.
ReplyDeleteChurches don't look like that, unless you go to Vegas.
As if being a unidexter wasn't going to hamper his life long wish to play Tarzan enough, he then became invisible!
ReplyDeleteI think it's safe to assume the part's well out of his reach now!
Regards
Peter Cook