Wuwei! Wowee!

We had a very full day today, including a ride along the ancient western end of China’s Great Wall, the discovery of a lost civilization, making a major motion picture (love those old gladiator movies!), and a late afternoon thunder shower as we arrived in Wuwei. It’s another one of those cities of several million people that seem to pop up in China every 40 or 50 miles…a city of several million that we’ve never heard of. China is indeed an amazing place.

It’s easy on us…I’m just following Master Sergeant Zuo’s lead…

Here’s one of Gobi Gresh on the Silk Road, paralleling the Great Wall!

And check out this photo I grabbed late today on the ride into Wuwei…

More good stuff…a stop in Yong Chang with a story about a lost Roman legion that is another one suitable for the plot of the next Indiana Jones movie. Several teenage girls came over to chat with us when we stopped. One even asked me for my phone number!  She wanted to practice her English.  The guys and I got a big kick out of that one!

And hey, it turns out that our expedition organizer, Sean, is China’s very own answer to the movie biz. We’re calling him Cecil B. De Ming!  He even looks like a movie director!

Yep, Gresh and I are the stars of a new major motion picture, portions of which the boys filmed in China this afternoon! You’ll want to read Riding China to get the full story, but as a teaser, here are a few photos from this afternoon…

We’ll make Lanzhou tomorrow, and we’ve done about 2200 miles in China so far. It is an amazing adventure.  The bikes are running great and so are we.  More to follow, my friends…so stay tuned.