I am tired, thats the first thing that I will sway about the last 2 Weeks.
So many things happen that I will need 2 weeks just to tell you what happened, don’t worry not something bad only good and hard things that will make me stronger.
I am not complaining of any moment just sharing.
Crossing the province of Inner Mongolia in this time of the year it’s not the easiest thing that I have done, it was so cold that I was shivering while cycling. I spent the nights in truck stops (”hotels”) and these places are something to talk about…
All over the world me and the truck drivers have love/hate relationship but like everything in china here it’s more extreme then the other relationships.
On the windy and narrow roads the trucks on the opposite direction always cutting me while they overtaking the other trucks, I am waving for them that they will see me and wait before but its doesn’t help they waving me hello in one hand and in the other they talking on the mobile phone.
It’s funny to write it now but I was close to be a part of the road tunnels many times.
In the truck stop all the truck drivers look at me like I am crazy to cycle in this cold and they always offer me a ride to bejing and when I say no they invite me to eat and drink with them. It was scary to see what is there fuel, they drinking vodka like its water while I am drinking my hot water.
After drinking and eating they say goodbye and climb to there monster trucks..
Maybe that’s why they thing that they are racing drivers.
On a big truck there is 3 people: the driver, the helper and another guy that I don’t know is position in the truck maybe he is the bartender in the truck.
The room has the charm of a train station in India but I don’t need more then that.
In the nights I remember why my high school teacher always wanted to put the air-condition in her lesions. Cold make you stay awake. There are no toilets but they give you a bucket to pie. If you need to have a” heavy one” that’s too bad because you need to go to the public toilet and I will say one thing about that:
Even if some one will shit on me I will not shit there again.
One night I pied in my bucket and then I noticed a slight problem that I will described in a song:” there is a hole in the bucket oy jinji oy jinji,” so I fixed it in a chine’s way and throw the bucket from the window.
emuna with the bucket
Before entering the area of the big city I needed to climb so it’s mean that it will be colder.
the name of this winds are “Siberian winds” and its mean that they coming from the cold plans of Siberia and collect more cold winds on the east plans of Mongolia and then its slapping on my face, this slap almost gave me a knockout.
ice on my beard
I waited for the warm smoke of the trucks to make me feel little warm air on my face.
in the end of a busy day
I had ice on my beard and I crossed icy rivers before getting to shelters from the wind,
skating on the road
Now I need you to use your imagination because this story will never happened to me in real life.
If a Mongolian girl will come to me and ask me kindly to take my close of it will take me long time to do that:
*5 layers of shirts +warm jackets.
*4 layers of pants.
*2 layers of socks.
*2 head scarf and baklava.
*2 scarf and 2 pair of globes.
And I tell you the truth I don’t care how good she is going to look (remember use your imagination…) I will tell her to go away and leave me alone, the nerves of this girl : ).
isnt he look like George Cloony?
I it took me 2 days to cycle around the city of bejing but it was ok I didn’t took the heavy traffic roads and also this city has good roads( 6 rings roads around the city…) and its now just very cold not freezing cold so its ok.
In the last weeks I pushed myself too much and I am wick so I need a day to my body to recover but more my mind needs to recover china can get to you nerves and its not easy place to cycle.
I am tired of being tired all the time… I don’t remember when I had one boring day in this place and I am already done more then 5000km in china (more then in Europe). In a week I be in the “great meeting” ,the place where the ocean meets the great wall and it will be my ending point in china and Asia , now I cant sleep because the excitement…
My 5th continents it also my home continent after all.
When I checking my spelling and grammar mistakes in this note I read again the stories and I know that I will miss this challenges and like the amazing people and places that I meet on my journey I start to miss them before leaving and continue my dream. miss them while be with them.
Don’t forget to fix the hole in your bucket.
Roei “jinji” Sadan
snahe
beijing province
china
Asia
the world
