Another Late, Late Night/Early Morning

So. I found this last evening in a comments forum at RP, of all places:

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Here we go...

If you're here, you probably know what I am about to do, but here's the synopsis:
- From Aug 1 - Oct 9 2006 I will ride a motorcycle around China
- I'll be traveling with George Bourassa, Mike Barkelew, and David Poh
- George convinced a Chinese motorcycle company, Qingqi, to sponsor this ride
- Our route begins and ends in Jinan, Shandong province and will likely stretch as far west as Sichuan, on the Tibetan plateau
- Qingqi wants our photos and footage to turn into an advertising campaign
- I hope to post to this blog regularly to keep people apprised of our progress
...stay tuned!

The first entry on the blog is above; the last entry is on October 6, 2006. In between there are lots of photos and a very interesting narrative! Four guys, four dual-purpose bikes, China, and Tibet. Now there’s an adventure for ya!

Would you believe it’s 1140 and I’m just now finishing that first cup? S’true, Gentle Reader. Another one of those late, late nights, which ended around 0400 this morning. This time I was up into the early hours reading the blog, above. Time well-spent, in this case. T’isn’t always so.

Today’s Pic: The Roosevelt County courthouse in the dead of night. Or would that be in the wee small hours? Choose your favorite term for 0330 hrs in the morning, coz that’s when I took the pic. Most places are “eerily quiet” at this hour; Portales is much, much more so. I wandered around in the middle of the street (literally) for half an hour taking pictures, with neither a car nor a soul to drive one to be seen or heard…anywhere. For other views of the courthouse taken during this early morning outing, go here and here.

July, 2005.