We enjoyed a noodle lunch here - and cold beer for Mike

The air was thick with pollution

Speed limits are low-this is a highway

A town entrance gate

Soot from the pollution was all over us

999 kms to go

The first road sign to say Beijing - Hooray!!

Looking down on Hanchang - an ancient village

Narrrow alleyway in Hanchang

Hanchang an ancient town

Our lunch being cooked at a roadside market

Lions like thisone everywhere

Manicured roadside coming intp a city

The daily task of writing in the journal

An old Chinese cemetry - Mao has ordered that all Chinese now be cremated

A Pagoda

We had a great lunch here of beef soup and noodles

A large solar panel "farm"