Today was a good day, quite uplifting. Of course the day is only half over, but that doesn't mean that it will get any worse from here.

This morning after waking up we decided to go out and see some things, being that we're going to be on a train for the next 36 hours. We rode our bikes out to the lake, Xuanwu Hu, and rode around the entire thing.

After that relaxing activity, we rode our bikes out to the Confucian Temple in southern Nanjing, Fuzi Miao, and walked around the shopping district for a while.

Finally we rode home and bought the necessary food and drinks to hold us over on the train for the next day and a half.

Now I'm packing for the big trip. It won't be a few hours until I'm on a train headed for the 'desert which people enter into and do not return from'.