Pamela visited on 5/10/2004 at 8:45:34 AM
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Lindy - Today sounds like the day you achieve a lifelong goal, Everest! I have chills reading the journal entries and tears in my eyes for the joy you must be feeling. I am so proud of you on your big adventure. Enjoy and please tell us you are journaling in the book Jennifer gave you! We can't wait to hear all the stories. Much love, pray for us on Wednesday morning... You know why.
Pamela
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Hal Minchew visited on 5/9/2004 at 7:44:48 PM
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For Lindy or Bernard---Correction--John BAzazinski's correct home phone is 734-762-5186
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Hal Minchew visited on 5/9/2004 at 7:40:03 PM
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For Lindy or Bernard----John Bagazinski tried to call on Bernard's cell phone.His home phone is 734-762-5189 Good luck. love Dad
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nina minchew visited on 5/8/2004 at 8:34:50 PM
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lindy, Thanks for your call. The joy in your voice gave us a spectacular sense of what you are experiencing. Regards to Bernard and thanks to Jim. Luv, mom.
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alan crisp visited on 5/8/2004 at 10:23:07 AM
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This day of rest in Shigatse in Tibet is not only a time for settling problems with the cars but in reflecting on the trip so far.You can only have a warm affection for the Chinese people and an inability to comprehend the changes they have experienced in the last few decades. For now China is on its way to super power status and in our travels from Beijin through the Northern plains we have seen much. The mad overbuilding, extensive polution, but an organised and disciplined working hard in the fields.
The drive yesterday was one of the best I have ever experienced from Nagqu a most unforgetable town, to Shigatse through some of the most countyside I have ever seen. One moment we were in Scotland, then the Alps and then the Rockies. Hihn plains one moment green and then desert. The bright, bright blue skys and the steep snow covered mountain are unforgetable to this motley crowd of travellers.
Great winds blow over miles and miles of scrub, bog and warm brown rocks and what look like English Larks go crying in the empty space; for away from the railroad gangs and the road builders we are on our own. These same birds and these plain saw the armies of Gengkis Khan come this way. In summer you could wander away from the road and never meet a soul but in the winter if you lost your way you would perish within and hour.But the people in this part of the country survive, creat villages and through intense hard work create fields, irrigation systems all of which we saw yesterday.
We have seen many religeous shrines in this Great Tour of China but the monestry at Shigatse is impressive and still alive. Its setting just below a high cliff set off the ornate gold domes. The streets reflect a medieval street plan with wide streets and squares and narrow lanes leading of. Behind the main pogoda I sat under a tree with a monk and thought of what was ahead. Sure there will be rough roads but days even better than today.
This truely is a great tour of China.
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Barbara visited on 5/8/2004 at 6:32:27 AM
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Hi Jim, So good to talk to you...you sound great and it seems like such a fantastic trip. Love seeing the pictures and reading all the journal entries. Eugene is better and Laura Ellen is out doing a riding event today...her passion. Keep well...love, Barbara
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Jonathan P-F visited on 5/7/2004 at 7:16:57 PM
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Hi Explorers,
Great to see your reports and that you are making camp OK each night. Hope that Jo and JB are taking care of y'all. I'm doing a major regatta at Cowes tomorrow but will be checking this site to ensure no terminal truck or person failures. Keep winching, not wenching. Jonathan.
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Jay Felker visited on 5/7/2004 at 5:42:44 PM
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To Lindy and Bernard-- I am jealous. The trip looks and sound s great from the postings I have read. Mark,Gary, and Jerry say hello and we can't wait to see some the pics that you guys got. Look forward to seeing you soon.
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Josh Huffard visited on 5/7/2004 at 3:17:32 PM
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Jim & Leejun,
I have just read through your web site and your trip and am entirely jealous of the adventure you are on. Very nice of you to share :) Look forward to continuing to check back on your progress.
warm regards, -- Josh
on of my favorite motivating quotes while i was travelling in patagonia might be relevant: "verily, the lust for comfort will murder the passion of the soul and walk grinning at its funeral"...not yet for you two!!! thanks for the inspiration.
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Tom Hitchcock visited on 5/7/2004 at 11:49:49 AM
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Jim: I haven't been good about checking in but just read portions of your journal. Wish we could swap places for just a day but am grateful for the way you and your friends are allowing the rest of us to experience this incredible trip. Pitiful that Leejun was turned away from her own country. More of us in the West should have a better appreciation of such oppressions before we so readily accept the feverish grandstanding and ridiculous statements of moral equivalency that compare our misdeeds and questionable policies with those of regimes who control their populations with intimidation, repression, imprisonment, and murder. We are so lucky to be born in freedom! For now, I'll have to be satisfied to count as a blessing that your logs even get to us . . . I read in this morning's news that the Chinese have shut down 8,000 internet cafes. This, and much, much worse, while so many of our fellow citizens are referring to Americans as terrorists and imperialists . . . send 'em to China for a year, I say, and then let's talk. Keep having fun, Godspeed, and thanks for carrying us along.
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