Author: jeffreyholte
Mollie and Sudan
Sudan is not a typical vacation spot. We took Mollie to Khartoum to visit people we know there during a school holiday (from Qatar). She was amazing. A lot of strange things happened but it includes a family living on an island on the Nile River offering their son to marry Mollie. She declined.
Mollie “Blue”
Mollie was not impressed. “It’s just blue”.
Hiking the Wild Wall
http://www.beijinghikers.com/trip-reports/yanqing-great-wall-hiking-photos-august-23//
From the Beijing Hikers website – hike Ellie and I took – one of our first “wild wall” hikes.
This was a hot hike, and it took a bit longer than we expected. We think the scenery was worth the effort, and appreciated the sparsely populated Yanqing countryside and the early Ming Dynasty Great Wall (as well as a cold beer afterward).
Statistics: 4.5 hours hiking (6 hours in total) over 14.5km (average moving speed 3.2km/hr); start height 999m, finish height 858m, highest point 1334m (by the radar station), total climbing 719m, total descending 844m. Estimated 2303kCal burned.
Life is an Adventure 