Trude is in Beijing now, and we will meet up tomorrow 🙂 I will not be writing regularly the next week, but will upload some pictures from the last days of walking the Great Wall here, and there will be a new picture and saying every day as usual.
This has been a crazy day. I have walked a fair distance, little of it being flat. But in a straight line I have moved only 7.5 kilometres. A bit discouraging. There have been deep scars in the landscape. In a couple of places, where the landscape around the Great […]
So far on this walk, I have been most concerned about having enough water with me. Now though I long for food, other than oatmeal, and lots of it! Today I got to a village called Chang Cheng. That’s the same as The Great Wall in Chinese. I asked for […]
Got off to a good start at 8 this morning. The scenery was truly beautiful with hills in every direction I looked. Most of them were green and a lot of them had farmers who were harvesting. Just right for some good pictures. The other consequence of all these hills […]
I started walking after noon today. There are a lot of fields along the Great Wall. This has made following the Great Wall difficult at times since I have to make constant detours as walking through the crops of farmers is not so popular. Luckily more and more fields are […]
For Norwegian readers: Idag var det nettmøte i Nordre Aker Budstikke – du kan lese mer her. Well – the rainy period is over now, so tomorrow I head back for the last place I was and start walking the day after. That should give me enough time to get […]
I was able to use a computer for three minutes last night, and the forecast said steady rain for the next 4-5 days. The clouds outside are of the sort that just stay put and contain impressive amounts of very wet rain. Since I still only have jogging shoes without […]
After about five minutes walk today, my shoes started making a squishy squashy sound, and that went on for the rest of the day.Trude is bringing some proper boots in two weeks time, but until then I will have to make do with what I have. The highlight of the […]
For Norwegian readers: Det blir nettmøte i Nordre Aker Budstikke på fredag om en uke. Hvis dere har spørsmål kan dere sende de dit. Sjekk www.nordreakerbudstikke.no for mer informasjon. I have spent several hours today listening to “The Hobbit” by JRR Tolkien. I am on a long journey just like […]