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Approximately every single day since we arrived in China, Zachary (age 7) has been asking for a bike. Riding a bike in China is just a step beyond chaos – regardless of your age. Even within our apartment complex ’sidewalks’ there is always people, dogs, stray cats, bikes, motorcycles, carts, construction rubbish, potholes, cars and sometimes trucks (not being funny yet). So as you can imagine, we have been at hesitant (read: terrified — that was supposed to be humorous).

So last week, we made the leap. Zach did great. We started small (see obstacle course above). A few days later Zach and I on our bikes ventured outside the apartment complex for the 10-minute ride to the local KFC (more intense – enter bigger vehicles going faster and people selling vegetables and pot -handles). Again Zach did great, and his confidence soared (which was quickly followed by a talk about “healthy fear”…).

Proud & nervous,

Dan

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