The kinks need to be worked out here, so bear with us as we take our baby steps. I hope that there will be a post entitled “sea legs” in the near future. Once we’re through wobbling around, the world is our oyster. Yum

I’m off for Guiyang this morning, the capital of Guizhou province. We’re going to try to reverse engineer the route described here.

A rainy dark morning in Xining – here’s hoping for the opposite later today.

From the creators of the igloo in the backyard, and the producers of lego city in the basement, the three baker-flynn bros bring you madape. We don’t have much of a mandate, other than to have a central place for keeping track of each other, sharing experiences with whoever is interested, and making the world a better place.
As this is a joint blog, the content will vary greatly. For example, anything posted by matt will probably be of high, nay pulitzer quality. I wouldn’t expect as much from the other shlubs. Hooray for brotherhood!

I believe that is one point for me. We will tally points at the conclusion of this blog. Winner gets all the cheese.

At the moment, I am in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province. With roughly six weeks to go in my China experience, I’d say this blog came not a moment too soon. I’m currently wrapping up work in anticipation of the upcoming National Day holiday, which starts October 1st and lasts for seven days. I had been planning a trip to Lhasa, but apparently a large section of the National People’s Congress will be visiting there, mucking up traffic and filling hotels. I’ll probably spend the time biking across southern China instead.