Steel, stone and sand
A land where no one
And no thing
Lingers long
A land to be
Traversed
A land where no one
And no thing
Lingers long
A land to be
Traversed
But I…
I pedal, slowly
Breathing the heat
Turning the crank
A lingering movement
Taking in the desert
Loving every mile
Between Liuyuan and Hami
Gansu Province, The People’s Republic of China
Gansu Province, The People’s Republic of China
Taken during travels, 1998
In 1998 I bicycled the width of China, from Shanghai to Kashgar, near the border of Pakistan. About 6,000 kilometers, about a third of that through the deserts of Xinjiang and Gansu.