October 18, 2024
W3: 高阳
(Uncaptioned photos included at the end)
The GPS claims 11km, but it's all dither from inside the hotel room.
Pretty much the only reason I leave at all is because I don't want breakfast, lunch, and dinner to be oatmeal and I'm feeling kind of hungry.
Huge amount of getting lost on the way to the large grocery store that the hotel boss had suggested to me, it will turn out that the first non-large grocery store I found actually had a better deal on oatmeal than the big place¹.
Other than the weather making it really obvious that I need to get south and fast, today's only real excitement is that the national media folks² who I'm absolutely certain said they were going to check in with me today about where I was going to be next week in order to record me for a program about my bike trips in rural China are now saying³ they want to catch up with me the day after tomorrow.
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¹ Price wise, the big place was better. However, I don't need 2kg of instant oats.
² Although I mention their corporate affiliation elsewhere in this trip journal, I never mentioned which outlet, channel, or program they are. And, as I move from "being excited that [redacted] has picked me as a subject for a program" to "complaining about every aspect of the TV crew's appalling behavior" I would like to make the connection a little less obvious.
³ Our text conversation is ambiguous, our spoken conversation happened over WeChat VoIP, and my phone doesn't record those†.
† From the one time something happened where recording a VoIP seemed like it might be a good idea, not just "doesn't," but "can't."
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Today's ride: 3 km (2 miles)
Total: 1,488 km (924 miles)
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