Not-so-Easy Riders
NOTE: A version of this story appeared in today’s edition of the South China Morning Post (subscription only).
by DAN WASHBURN
Mark Jardine needed a break. Outside of Lijiang, in the remote northwest corner of China’s Yunnan Province, he and his Harley-Davidson had just rumbled 150 kilometers up a serpentine stretch of hand-laid cobblestone that climbed to an elevation of 4,400 meters. He stopped his motorcycle and looked down. The Yangtze River roared through Tiger Leaping Gorge, and Jardine spoke to his riding partners.
“You guys have got to admit,” he said. “This is the most awesome thing that we have done.”
05.27.2003, 10:58 PM · Stories