Not all those who wander are lost

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Make bikes, not cars.

The taxi driver this morning in Denmark said something very interesting: “Ten years ago Danes drove cars and the Chinese rode bikes. Now the Chinese drive cars and the Danes ride bikes.” That is certainly true as the streets here are about 40% occupied by bikers of all sizes. This morning I saw a virtual …

My first Danish Danish!

‘Tis true. I have arrived in Denmark and this morning I had my first real Danish Danish. It did not hit me until I was at breakfast, but this is the originating country of the sweet. I was rightly distracted for so many reasons. The first was customs. I am glad I did not blink …

Everybodys working for the weekend!

With a face only a mother could love, who wouldn’t want to come home to this? Well, my lovely wife had a very hard and long week last week. She started on Sunday due to the Chinese New Year, worked until 11pm or later almost every night and stumbled head first into the weekend to …

New Google Earth posts

For those of you who like Google Earth links I have posted a few for you here. You can see where we are located in Beijing and several of the places we ride our bikes to. Can you find the airport? I told you we were close. More links can also be found at https://beuk.tv/china. …

Do you know what this is?

I have to admit. I have lived in China for a year now and I had no idea what this was. I thought it was some kind of brick. When I asked my tour guide the other day what it was he said… Coal! I said, “It’s not a brick?”. He said, “No, this is …

Ice cold bicycle

For those of you who do not believe me, they really do move refrigerators on bicycles.  The thing is it is very common to see it on the street.  At least once a week you can find someone riding with a bicycle or other such strange items.  It is also very weird to see the …