Pretty much all the cigarettes I saw people smoking (and there were of course tons) in Xiazhai (霞寨), Fujian were hand-rolled. We haven't traveled very far lately due to visa issues and sickness. I promise we'll be getting the blog back up to date over the next few days!
Tomorrow we should hit the northernmost point of our trip. Unfortunately there's no time left to touch the actual Mongolian border :( 2010-08-30
Expected to find grassland up here, but that (along with actual Mongolians apparently) has been wiped out and replaced w/ cultivated fields. 2010-08-30
Also finally got off national highway 110! Now making way east on dirt roads. Camping in field of sunflowers tonight with mountain backdrop. 2010-08-30
Wind settled down and road conditions was paved. Evan was sick but we finally got over 100km, which we need to average back to Beijing! 2010-08-30
