Summer...

Well, suppose its time to lay out my summer on here! I'll be flying down to Singapore in a few weeks with my bicycle. From there I'll re-assemble it (have to disassemble it for the flight down) and will be cycling 5000km from Singapore to Macau! Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and China in all!

Right now I'm still figuring out routes and whatnot, but honestly most of it will be planned on the fly by the seat of my pants!

This is the bike I'll be doing the tour on. Still some modifications to finish like removing the dual-drive and adding a Campy triple in front, replacing the chain and adding a different seat (mesh, much more tolerable in the summer heat of Southeast Asia!) and oh so much more.

Anyways, enough of this for now. More to come later!

Dusty Road

Dusty road in Central Asia

Karakol Lake (Black Lake)

Panorama of Karakol Lake in Xinjiang Province, western China. The lake sits at 4000+ meters above sea level!

Dirt Road

Dirt road in rural Xinjiang Province in western China. This was taken somewhere near a town called Maket (bad spelling I'm sure, honestly don't know where it is on a map other than somewhere along the edge of the Taklamakan desert...)

Macau

Macau, June 2009

Chinese Dentist!

Chinese Dentist... So glad to be living in HK and not in mainland China!

Id Kah Mosque, China

The Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, China is the largest mosque in Central Asia and can hold up to 20,000 people at one time.

NYC

Some images from my time spent in NYC last year... Of course, one of the things that every photographer should do once in their lifetime is take a picture of the Flatiron Building
 in southern Manhattan Island...

Passu, Pakistan

Can't wait for this road to be finished with the reconstruction and the problems in Pakistan to clear up a bit again. This is the Karakoram Highway leading towards Passu and 'Cathedral Ridge' which is one of my favorite mountains and one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Going through my archives for the first time in what feels like a year and finding lots of little gems like this one. It is from last July in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Image was taken from the top of my hotel in Sadaar Bazaar near sunset

Hong Kong's Central district from the Expo Center in Wan Chai

Famous lights of Wan Chai at nighttime

Another one of the double-decker trams on the Island... HK has more of these than any other place in the world!

Policeman at a protest in Victoria Park this afternoon

Some of the protesters at said protest...

Perhaps the future of 'journalism' is people like this chap blogging about what is happening... at the exact time it is happening. Its amazing what the internet has done to transform the world of media in the last few years with the addition of new social networking tools...

Bandar Seri Begawan

Reworked image of a mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei.

Bike!

This is the clunker I took across Borneo the first time around...

Malaysian Satay

Malaysian Satay Chicken skewers. They come with the most delicious Thai peanut sauce that is just to die for!

Fort Margherita, Kuching, Malaysia

Been re-working a bunch of files from the last year and have found quite a few that I overlooked the first time around. This one is from Kuching, Malaysia.

Takeoff

Lucky rays of sunlight after takeoff