Li Dongju is 65 years old. In the past years, she has ridden to different places in China and 12 countries around the world, including France, Thailand and New Zealand.
Li’s love for riding was born out of the breakdown of her marriage. The divorce left Li feeling very sad. Over the next few years, she tried a number of things to feel better, but things didn’t really improve. That made her sad and helpless. At the end of 2013, Li’s son bought her a mountain bike and told his mother it might present her with a new way to kill her time. To make her son less worried, she decided to give it a go. She began cycling every day. At first, she only felt confident enough to ride close to home, but after a few days’ practice, she started going around the suburbs. Gradually, the pleasure of cycling relaxed her physically and mentally.
Then Li began to plan a long journey. In November 2014, Li and two other cyclists began their trip to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, from Nanning in Guangxi. They spent around a month biking across Vietnam. During the journey, they experienced wind and rain, and had to overcome the language barrier. After she returned to Nanning in Guangxi that December, Li continued on to Lijiang in Yunnan province, and then finished her trip by cycling around Hainan province in the spring of 2015.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Li was forced to suspend her long-distance cycling and instead started livestreaming (直播) to share her travel experiences. “Cycling has changed me a lot,” she said. “I am happy to share my experiences, and I hope I can help others just as the people I met helped me.”
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