Archive for January, 2008

more than numbers

day 54: 静升 (jingsheng) = 0km Two zero zero eight. It’s the year of the Olympics alright. Most radio and [...]

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

invisible Russians

day 55: 静升 (jingsheng) – 灵石 (lingshi) = 16,7km An easy day. Mild temperatures. Roads winding through little villages. People [...]

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

mistaken

day 56: 灵石 (lingshi) – 南关 (nanguan) = 29,8km This morning I made a mistake. I looked at the map [...]

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

in the bunk

day 57: 南关 (nanguan) = 0km I look like shit today: Better take a day off to buy some medicine [...]

Friday, January 4th, 2008

cruelty lines

day 58: 南关 (nanguan) – 霍州 (huozhou) = 20,7km I just lay there on my bed, thinking and thinking: should [...]

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

tragedy

day 59: 霍州 (huozhou) = 0km I’m still not well. Always a bit dizzy. Maybe I should have stayed in [...]

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

disaster movies

day 60: 霍州 (huozhou) = 0km When I woke up this morning and still had that dizzy feeling I decided [...]

Monday, January 7th, 2008

mountain temples

day 61: 霍州 (huozhou) – 辛置 (xinzhi) = 18,2km My health is getting better to an extent where I can’t [...]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

dust

day 62: 辛置 (xinzhi) – 赵城 (zhaocheng) = 15,6km I stayed around at 刘爷爷 (Grandpa Liu)’s house until noon, chatting [...]

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

go head down

day 63: 赵城 (zhaocheng) – 广胜寺 (guangshengsi) = 18,8km Not much to talk about. I’m currently headed a bit east [...]

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

the big plastic tree

day 64: 广胜寺 (guangshengsi) – 洪洞 (hongtong) = 18,6km I got up early today and climbed up the few hundred [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2008

snow anthem

day 65: 洪洞 (hongtong) – 甘亭 (ganting) = 16,1km What a terrible night: some dude started yelling for the maid [...]

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

putting on the gaiters

day 66: 甘亭 (ganting) – 临汾(linfen) = 19,7km Very friendly people at the hotel: It had been a much better [...]

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

washing my socks means polluting the water

day 67: 临汾(linfen) = 0km I’m hanging out in the city today, feeding off fast food and taking care of [...]

Monday, January 14th, 2008

the most dirtiest?

day 68: 临汾(linfen) = 0km I just remembered something: a while ago I had read in a German publication that [...]

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

within city limits

day 69: 临汾(linfen) – 临汾(linfen) = 10,5km My friends know: I’m a lazy pig. But I left my hotel this [...]

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

a day in the life

day 70: 临汾(linfen) – 襄汾(xiangfen) = 24km sleep 08:00 – Wake up from alarm clock. Open eyes, extend arm from [...]

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

1-0-0-0

day 71: 襄汾(xiangfen) – 丁村 (dingcun) = 12,2km 2008-01-18.kmz view on larger map This is me after precisely one thousand [...]

Friday, January 18th, 2008

the crane

day 72: 丁村 (dingcun) – 里村 (licun) = 12,2km 杨福生 (yang fusheng) had always been a very well-respected man, and [...]

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

my wet shoes

day 73: 里村 (licun) – 曲沃 (quwo) = 15,9km My down filled sleeping bag kicks some serious arse. I actually [...]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

time and the radiator

day 74: 曲沃 (quwo) = 0km Someone asked me which of all items I’m carrying was the single most useful. [...]

Monday, January 21st, 2008

who’s got the 鼎?

day 75: 曲沃 (quwo) – 侯马 (houma) = 13,5km I’m on the move again today, zooming in little by little [...]

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

a shillyshally rat

day 76: 侯马 (houma) = 0km When I’m moving, I’m moving slow. And sometimes I’m not moving at all. It’s [...]

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

encounters

day 77: 侯马 (houma) – 新绛 (xinjiang) = 15,6km Today was another walk through the cold and white: Here’s something [...]

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

oversized intruder

day 78: 新绛 (xinjiang) = 0km Usually I try to do a bit of research before I get to a [...]

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I bislike the iron road

day 79: 新绛 (xinjiang) – 稷山 (jishan) = 25,3km 稷山 (jishan) is actually more than 30km from 新绛 (xinjiang), but [...]

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

massive Buddha, heavy snow

day 80: 稷山 (jishan) – 翟店 (zhaidian) = 19,9km There’s a site in 稷山 (jishan) that’s called 大佛寺 (dafo temple): [...]

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

others too

day 81: 翟店 (zhaidian) – 万荣 (wanrong) = 13,7km Many people I see ask me why I don’t take a [...]

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Christoph in hell?

day 82: 万荣 (wanrong) – 孤峰山 (gufengshan) = 15,6km I arrived at the weird thing today, but before that, I [...]

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

on the flank

day 83: 孤峰山 (gufengshan) = 0km No people around: I got up around noon and explored the skiing resort I [...]

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

a boy’s night out

day 84: 孤峰山 (gufengshan) – somewhere in the fields = 13,8km There’s a park up here: They told me there [...]

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
 




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