T-7: 三亚 → 陇西 (双语）

September 9, 2024

At the overweight luggage counter 在超重行李托运处

I don't think I'm going to give you a blow by blow recounting of how things go while I'm on the media trip. For one thing, it's got nothing to do with biking. For another, I've got no control over the itinerary and I'm not going the kind of places that are "bike trip relevant."

I will note that our first hotel (at about twice the cost of my usual bike trip locations) photocopied everyone's passports as the Gansu Registration System's foreigner component appears to still be broken. I say "appears" because, although talking my way behind the front desk is a plan for before the end of the junket, I just haven't done it yet.

我觉得我不会把这次媒体之行期间发生的事情事无巨细地讲给你听。一方面，这和骑行没什么关系。另一方面，行程安排我做不了主，而且我去的也不是那种和“骑行之旅”相关的地方。

我要说明一下，我们入住的第一家酒店（费用大约是我平常骑行住宿地的两倍）复印了每个人的护照，因为甘肃省游客信息登网中关于外国人的那部分似乎还在故障中。我说“似乎”是因为，尽管我打算在这次媒体之旅结束前找机会到前台后面去了解一下情况，但我还没去做呢。

Only one of the seven hotels I've stayed at since I started documenting the systemic changes since the May 24 Announcement correctly and quickly registered me¹ so it's a bit difficult to make a video which accurately reflects what has happened and what people ought to know while simultaneously not pissing off the state-owned media that are the reason for my getting paid for vacations.

自从我开始记录这些系5月24日通告发布以来的变化，我住过的七家酒店里只有一家正确且迅速地为我办理了入住登记手续¹，所以制作一个视频，既能准确反映发生的情况以及人们应该了解的信息，同时又不会惹恼让我公费休假的国有媒体，还真是有点难度。

The first of many Large Group Photos in front of things 我们在这个背景下拍的了好多张合影，这是第一张。

With our first meal being Beef Noodles near the airport and our first stop being a TCM hospital, I was a little worried that this trip was going to turn out bad 我们的第一餐是在机场附近吃的牛肉面，第一站是一家中医医院，当时我有点担心这次旅行会搞砸。

Got into Sanya fairly late last night. Completely knackered from the walking with the suitcases that are 90% Tour gear², and the hours spent sitting on the train station floor waiting for my train. Reading through the messages of people I know looking for a place to charge their phone or to get a shower, I felt more than a little bit guilty relaxing in the giant bathtub that my hotel room had but I told myself that even if I hadn't thought I was leaving for four or five days, I wasn't the one who scheduled my leaving now and I wasn't exactly pulling a "Ted Cruz running to Cancun."

Up at 4am to get the shuttle³ to the airport and my flight to Lanzhou. Paid for 6kg of overweight luggage that should have been within the allotment I was told was included in my ticket but which I wasn't exactly going to try arguing about or rejiggering into carry-on at that non-level of alert.

昨晚到三亚的时已经挺晚了。拖着那装着90%的自行车旅行装备²的行李箱走了那么多路，又在火车站候车室的地上坐了好几个小时等火车，我累得筋疲力尽。看到我认识的人发的朋友圈等消息，说他们在到处找能给手机充电或者能洗澡的地方，我躺在酒店房间的大浴缸里放松的时候，心里别提多愧疚了。但我告诉自己，就算之前没料到会离开四五天，可安排我现在就走的又不是我，而且我也没有像“泰德·克鲁兹（Ted Cruz）跑去坎昆度假”那样溜之大吉。

凌晨4点，我就起床去乘坐前往机场的班车，然后搭乘飞往兰州的航班，还为超重的6公斤行李付了费，本来按我被告知的情况，这重量应该是在机票所含的免费行李额度之内的，但当时我不太清醒，也就没想着去争辩或者把行李重新整理成随身携带的物品。

Even knowing how much pain I'm in when I don't use Airport Wheelchair Service, I still feel like an imposter using it 即便我很清楚自己不使用机场轮椅服务时会有多难受，但是如果用了，我又总感觉自己像个假冒者。

Didn't really sleep on the plane beyond interrupted catnaps. Also didn't get much sleep on the coach after landing. Luckily though, the only place we visited today was a TCM Hospital so I not only didn't miss out on anything interesting, I was also too wiped to be snarky⁴.

在飞机上除了断断续续打了几个盹儿，根本没怎么睡着。下飞机后坐的旅游大巴也没睡多少觉。不过幸运的是，我们今天唯一参观的地方是一家中医医院，所以我不仅没错过有意思的事儿，而且累得都没力气去吐槽了⁴。

¹ Beihai registered me on the computer; Shanghai, Haikou, and Sanya took pictures of my passport; Zhouning took our passports while we were at dinner and may have registered us; one hotel in Chengdu let me stay but flat out refused to register me while the other triggered a complaint about the local police during the process of them making registration as difficult as possible

¹ 北海是在电脑上给我做了登记；上海、海口和三亚是拍了我护照的照片；周宁在我们晚餐时收走了我们的护照，可能也登记了；成都的一家酒店让我住下了，但是断然拒绝给我做登记，而另一家酒店在办理登记手续时因为当地警方把登记流程弄得够复杂所以得到我写的投诉信。

First sight of the Yellow River in over a year 一年多来第一次看到黄河。

² I can shoehorn relevance in

³ I'm not sure they actually have a shuttle. They said it was just a case of not enough people and hailed me a car on their phone app.

⁴ I have very little faith in placebo

² 说了这个行李就算我说了骑行之旅所以这个是骑行之旅博客的内容，对不对？

³ 我不确定他们实际上有没有自己的班车。他们说只是因为人数不够才没安排班车，然后用手机应用给我叫了一辆车。

⁴ 我对安慰剂没什么信心。

Photographing the Front Desk's phone in order to prove to the driver that I'm supposed to be getting in his car 我拍了前台工作人员手机的照片，便于向司机证明是我要坐他的车。

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