Don't you ever lie to meJoined: 12 May 2008Posts: 1059Location: Boat on a hill
(I know these photos are huge, I'm too lazy to resize them tonight. Maybe in the morning.)
Just a quick recap for those of you who couldn't make Tuesday's ride. After careful consideration, the one-man pack decided to make a go of wonderful, car-free Lamma Island to the south of Hong Kong Island. Coming off the high-speed ferry, .83 HK was clearly in good company:
Quickly reaching a bike rental shop, we made for the south end of the island after making a detour up the first massive hill that passed by, which ended abruptly but had a nice jungle vibe to it:
After that it was an up-and-down shitty fucking ride through mountainous coastlines that paid off with the amazing little bay of Sok Kwu Wan where I stuck my hand into a bucket of cuttlefish and looked out over the bay:
Turned around, headed back the same way but stopped for a water break in one of the Kamikaze caves, where the japs dug out tunnels to store munitions and possibly set up high-speed boats packed with explosives to make suicide runs if the allies had attempted to re-take Hong Kong. I really wish the rising sun spoke card was in this picture, fuck all!:
Then it was a quick and treacherous downhill back to Yung Shue Wan but quite the blast - much yelling at old chinese tourists to Get Out Of The Fucking Way! - before the reward of me and Joseph Conrad sharing Beerlao bottles on the bay.
I know there have been some complaints about not enough kilometers each ride, too much drinking etc etc., but I think the hills made up for it. Check the route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2534283
And since that wasn't enough photo spamming, I then ended my Tuesday ride by going up the peak tram and drinking on the observation deck:
So where is Pointy3 Seattle riding this tuesday? I suggest you prefunk somewhere with LOTS OF BOURBON, since it is delicious, amazing - and not at all evenly distributed across the globe, you lucky fucks. You ride in TEN (if my time-zone math is right...)
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:44 am
daywalkerJoined: 09 Nov 2007Posts: 6108Location: Hatertown
Killer.
Last pic looks like the opening sequence to Ghost In The Shell. But, it would wouldn't it.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:06 pm
it never happenedJoined: 13 Mar 2008Posts: 1142Location: Wallenfjord
Did you take this pic off that giant white shinto gate lookin structure on toppa tha hill. I swear I have the exact same pic, but taken with a blurry real-film camera before we all went digital from my time there in ought-2. I was tired of being surrounded by sailors and walked up there one night, changed my shirt and walked around some more. I also have a picture of a friend's entire head sticking out the top of a topiary maze somewhere in Kowloon. Asian people aren't 6'4"
Do go check out the giant bronze buddha statue nearby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_Tan_Buddha
Do ride the greenstar ferry if it's still around
Do not eat at any pizza hut. I seem to remember dried fish pizzas w/ no tomato sauce [shudder]
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Don't you ever lie to me
Joined: 12 May 2008
Posts: 1059
Location: Boat on a hill
daywalker
Joined: 09 Nov 2007
Posts: 6108
Location: Hatertown
it never happened
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
Posts: 1142
Location: Wallenfjord
