On July 16th, 2013, with our partners Free Lunch for Children and CFMOTO, we held a press conference to announce our plan to ride over 25,000km through every province in China. Overall turned out better than expected with a lot of help from a lot of people!

A factory visit to Hangzhou yields us a motorcycle and an official sponsor for The Great Ride of China. Read about our 2 days of meetings with the heads of the company, test driving, and maintenance training!

We've got our first ever DSLR camera! Now all we have to do is learn how to use it... As part of our prep for the trip we took a two full day course at a local, foreign run art school to learn the mechanics of our camera and how to take pictures!

When you're getting ready for a really long distance trip by motorcycle, on the one hand you want to make sure you prepare as much as possible. On the other though, part of the fun of it all is dealing with the unexpected and just sort of "playing it by ear".